Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755327Ab1EaOOH (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 10:14:07 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:39826 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751368Ab1EaOOE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2011 10:14:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=eCQrFzUgjUI6NfQOu0tB6GQZvzYKCehJCUvoU/4IxwPQi1OXLnmlsgzACVkuLXzp7q GvLfp6Mzvp3WMluu7QdHYIgKqq60UB/xbpT1sm4Sv4hFEWqKgVhURBQo5rrD4b+kqy8g 7psu9UW7MlrgESEU271aj+0G1YnICdMN1236s= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306842211.2029.531.camel@i7.infradead.org> References: <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> <20110531075306.GB20798@elte.hu> <1306832148.2029.484.camel@i7.infradead.org> <20110531104106.GD24172@elte.hu> <1306842211.2029.531.camel@i7.infradead.org> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:14:03 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eNr2K4fpNZZTAogVXKnNW1LVu0E Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: David Woodhouse Cc: Ingo Molnar , "Ted Ts'o" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Randy Dunlap Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 36 On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:43, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:41 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * David Woodhouse wrote: >> > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> > > I'll always prefer typing: >> > >   make ARCH=x86_64 ... >> > > To: >> > >   make ARCH=x86 CONFIG_64BIT=y ... >> > >> > Why else would you need to specify ARCH=x86 on the latter command line? >> >> Note that if we are consistent and implement the logical extension of >> your CONFIG_64BIT 'fix' then we could pick up the target architecture >> from the .config as well and not use the host architecture. > > It would be interesting, perhaps, to make the architecture a config > option. Distinctly non-trivial, though. I think it's been discussed > before. IIRC, that's one of the goals on the kbuild plan. Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/