Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86, kconfig: Pick up the .config arch version in
 'make oldconfig'
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:45:06 +0100
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On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:37 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> 
> This breaks all{mod,yes}config on 32bit and allnoconfig on 64bit (and 
> randconfig sometimes :)). The user expectation is that make 
> defconfig/allmodconfig/allyesconfig builds a kernel for their 
> architecture. You only handle defconfig below. 

It's a broken expectation.

Your architecture is x86. You are building the kernel in arch/x86.

Your architecture is not "i386 with PAE" or "i386 without PAE" or
"x86_64 with VT-x". Those are *configuration* options.

If you want the Aunt Tillie "configure for my machine" option, that's
something different. And uninteresting.

-- 
dwmw2

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