Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:15 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > I believe that this 'filtered randconfig' behaviour is now fairly much
> > > the *only* use for the old 'ARCH=i386' and 'ARCH=x86_64'.
> > 
> > I use "make ARCH=i386 defconfig" and "make ARCH=x86_64 defconfig" all 
> > the time.
> 
> Good point. But shouldn't "make i386_defconfig" and "make
> x86_64_defconfig" do that?

Yeah, we could certainly fix (or extend?) kconfig to allow those 
forms too, if you would like to use them.

I personally prefer 'make ARCH=i386 defconfig' and 'make ARCH=x86_64 
defconfig' because it's a nice conceptual equivalent to:

	make ARCH=arm defconfig
	make ARCH=mips defconfig

et al.

'make ARCH=x86 defconfig' should probably default to the host bitness 
version, or always default to 64-bit - right now it defaults to 
i386_defconfig.

[ Note that some of the architectures are a bit weird there: for 
  example 'make ARCH=powerpc' will only work if you use a PPC 
  cross-compiler - but it generally works fine and i rely on that for 
  cross-build tooling. ]

As for your fix patch, is the wording i provided fine to you so i can 
commit it? I think we should treat it differently from any defconfig 
related fixes/enhancements and not delay it - the 2 years of delay 
was already too long IMHO! ;-)

Thanks,

	Ingo