Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757642Ab1E3TDS (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 15:03:18 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:39029 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752356Ab1E3TDR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 15:03:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 20:03:08 +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: 987 Lines: 24 On Mon, 30 May 2011, Theodore Tso wrote: > All this talk of how it's OK for randconfig to give you i386 50% of the time > even when ARCH=x86_64 is specified is confusing me? Maybe that > was just intended to be sarcasm? No, I don't believe that was ever actually said at all. Certainly not this year. What was said was that with ARCH=x86, it's OK for randconfig to be random. And that the legacy trick of using ARCH=i386 or ARCH=x86_64 as a hack to override *just* CONFOG_64BIT, although nobody has posted a patch which removes or breaks that, probably ought to be deprecated in favour of a more generic way to override config options - one that doesn't work only for *one* config option, and only on *one* architecture. -- 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/