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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:11:37 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'
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* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What kind of replacement are you suggesting?
> 
> I suspect that
>     make CONFIG_64BIT=y CONFIG_SATA_MV=y whateverconfig
> 
> ought to work for all the examples shown so far?

Well, some people will argue that:

	make ARCH=i386 whateverconfig

is less typing than:

	make CONFIG_64BIT=y whateverconfig                 # set bitness
	make CONFIG_64BIT=y ARCH=x86 whateverconfig        # set architecture and bitness

but yes, in the long run i agree that 'ARCH=i386' would simply be a 
(legacy) shortcut for:
 
        CONFIG_64BIT=y ARCH=x86

and 'ARCH=x86_64' should be a (legacy) shortcut for:

        CONFIG_64BIT=n ARCH=x86

Thanks,

	Ingo
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