Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:42:14 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'
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* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:04 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > That v2 changelog still seems to have an attitude though about the 
> > ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 modifiers (thoroughly debunked both by 
> > myself and others), so mind sending a v3 one which correctly and 
> > fairly describes the situation? (or ack my variant which ought to be 
> > pretty close) 
> 
> SIGWENCH; have to run. Back later. Can we make it something like
> 
> "This version preserves the legacy ARCH=i386/ARCH=x86_64 behaviour for
> randconfig/oldconfig/all*config, although I believe that this *ought* to
> be removed in the future, in favour of a generic method of overriding
> config options — one that doesn't work *only* for one particular config
> setting (CONFIG_64BIT), and *only* on one architecture (there's no
> equivalent for mips/powerpc/s390/parisc/sparc to flip CONFIG_64BIT for
> you)."
> 
> It's less of an 'attitude' but I think it clearly states the situation?

Not sure we can actually remove it all that soon - people rely on it 
and seem to like it, me included!

What kind of replacement are you suggesting?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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