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 09:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > You thoroughly misunderstood my prior regression report, the problem 
> > with your patch was that your patch actually *broke* existing 
> > filtered-randconfig behavior, for example trying to get a 64-bit 
> > randconfig:
> > 
> >   make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig
> > 
> > ... will today produce a 64-bit randconfig while with your old change 
> > applied it produced a 32-bit randconfig 50% of the time.
> 
> I believe that this 'filtered randconfig' behaviour is now fairly much
> the *only* use for the old 'ARCH=i386' and 'ARCH=x86_64'.

Not really, there's also:

	make ARCH=i386   defconfig      # writes 32-bit defconfig into .config
	make ARCH=x86_64 defconfig      # writes 64-bit defconfig into .config

	make ARCH=i386   oldconfig      # turns 64-bit .config int 32-bit equivalent
	make ARCH=x86_64 oldconfig      # turns 32-bit .config int 64-bit equivalent

And i use these variants myself, both as commands typed and in 
scripts, in addition to the randconfig variants:

	make ARCH=i386   randconfig     # write 32-bit randconfig into .config
	make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig     # write 64-bit randconfig into .config

I'm pretty sure others are relying on these variants as well - they 
are fairly logical along several dimensions.

So could we please fix the 'make oldconfig' behavior (which i fully 
agree with you should pick up the bitness from the .config) *without* 
regressing these other, working and useful cases?

Thanks,

	Ingo