Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758132Ab1EaHxV (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 03:53:21 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:53318 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757999Ab1EaHxU (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 03:53:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:53:06 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: David Woodhouse Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' Message-ID: <20110531075306.GB20798@elte.hu> References: <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> <20110530195545.GG2890@dhcp-172-31-194-241.cam.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1052 Lines: 37 * David Woodhouse wrote: > And then this legacy trick of using the obsolete $ARCH settings to > override the setting of CONFIG_64BIT can be deprecated. Sigh, nope. The two legacies we have should simply be turned into trivial aliases that map to the newfangled CONFIG_*=y way of doing things. I'll always prefer typing: make ARCH=x86_64 ... To: make ARCH=x86 CONFIG_64BIT=y ... And others have expressed that in this thread too. Really, guys, please stop breaking existing tools! There is no problem to solve here, having ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 around does not hurt anyone, is well established and actively helps people so what's your problem? I'll be happy to learn the new methods and will happily add them to the toolbox of existing methods. Thanks, 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/