Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756843Ab1E3L6B (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 07:58:01 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58208 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751651Ab1E3L6A (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 07:58:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 12:57:52 +0100 (BST) From: David Woodhouse X-X-Sender: dwmw2@localhost6.localdomain6 To: Theodore Tso cc: Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' In-Reply-To: <1A4DB87D-9B32-44C0-B7C9-47A003CABD96@mit.edu> Message-ID: References: <1306707270.2029.377.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110530072300.GA9802@elte.hu> <1306745835.2029.389.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110530104231.GF17821@elte.hu> <20110530104656.GA19532@elte.hu> <20110530105809.GA20133@elte.hu> <1A4DB87D-9B32-44C0-B7C9-47A003CABD96@mit.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 19 On Mon, 30 May 2011, Theodore Tso wrote: > OK, so to clarify, what you want is for ARCH=xxx to always override > whatever is in .config? Are we all on the same page here? I thought > David was arguing that what was in .config should always be more > important, since he regards "ARCH=xxxx" as "legacy". I am saying that we should not have that redundancy at all. ATM we *only* have it for CONFIG_64BIT and *only* on x86, not others like ppc/sh/sparc etc. -- dwmw2 -- 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/