Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:37:40 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
       hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] x86: allow 64bit setting in Kconfig
Message-ID: <20080211163740.GA2446@elte.hu>
References: <20080128220944.GI8767@does.not.exist> <20080201152227.GB32085@elte.hu> <20080204204555.GC505@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20080204204555.GC505@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1139
Lines: 28


* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> >     make ARCH=i386 randconfig
> > 
> > on a 64-bit box that has a 32-bit .config in its kernel directory.
> > 
> > The randconfig/allyesconfig/allnoconfig variants override whatever 
> > is in the current .config. Making the result depend on whatever is 
> > in the .config at the moment is fundamentally wrong.
> > 
> > "oldconfig" on the other hand has correct sensitivity to the 
> > existing .config - and that always worked correctly. So if you pop a 
> > 32-bit or a 64-bit .config into a kernel tree, that will be listened 
> > to, no matter whether you are on a 32-bit or on a 64-bit host.
> 
> Do you have ARCH=x86 set in your environment, the command line or 
> patched into your Makefile when this works for you?

nope, it happens with vanilla and no ARCH environment variable set that 
i know of. So you cannot see this behavior?

	Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/