Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:09:44 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
       hpa@zytor.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.6 patch] x86: allow 64bit setting in Kconfig
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Recently someone told me he had a bug on x86 and to reproduce
it I should "'make allyesconfig' and disable CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y".

But I didn't see it.

"make allyesconfig" is ambiguous on x86 and he had a 64bit computer.

There go another two hours compile time.

It makes sense to have the Kconfig default and the defconfig based on 
whether you are on a 32bit or a 64bit machine, but it's complete 
nonsense to not offer the Kconfig variable unless you had explicitely 
given ARCH=x86 (in which case you could as well immediately set the ARCH 
to i386 or x86_64).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

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This patch has been sent on:
- 17 Jan 2008

fcf848366a166812fa32b2a22f2631fcd4982cb4 
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 80b7ba4..0e6e74d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ mainmenu "Linux Kernel Configuration for x86"
 
 # Select 32 or 64 bit
 config 64BIT
-	bool "64-bit kernel" if ARCH = "x86"
+	bool "64-bit kernel"
 	default ARCH = "x86_64"
 	help
 	  Say yes to build a 64-bit kernel - formerly known as x86_64

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