From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:42:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530114214.GC22324@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306753958.2029.450.camel@i7.infradead.org>
* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:04 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > That v2 changelog still seems to have an attitude though about the
> > ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 modifiers (thoroughly debunked both by
> > myself and others), so mind sending a v3 one which correctly and
> > fairly describes the situation? (or ack my variant which ought to be
> > pretty close)
>
> SIGWENCH; have to run. Back later. Can we make it something like
>
> "This version preserves the legacy ARCH=i386/ARCH=x86_64 behaviour for
> randconfig/oldconfig/all*config, although I believe that this *ought* to
> be removed in the future, in favour of a generic method of overriding
> config options — one that doesn't work *only* for one particular config
> setting (CONFIG_64BIT), and *only* on one architecture (there's no
> equivalent for mips/powerpc/s390/parisc/sparc to flip CONFIG_64BIT for
> you)."
>
> It's less of an 'attitude' but I think it clearly states the situation?
Not sure we can actually remove it all that soon - people rely on it
and seem to like it, me included!
What kind of replacement are you suggesting?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-30 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-29 22:14 [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 8:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 9:27 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:06 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 10:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:01 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 11:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:12 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-30 11:55 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-05-30 10:09 ` [PATCH v2] x86, kconfig: Pick up the .config arch version " David Woodhouse
2011-06-24 13:37 ` Michal Marek
2011-06-24 14:45 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 10:42 ` [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 " Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:53 ` Theodore Tso
2011-05-30 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:04 ` Theodore Tso
2011-05-30 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 11:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 19:03 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 19:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-30 20:12 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 22:39 ` [PATCH] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 0:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-31 15:48 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 16:12 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-06-24 13:49 ` Michal Marek
2011-07-29 23:32 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 1:15 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 9:04 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 0:49 ` [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 1:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 1:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 8:37 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 15:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 15:52 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 16:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 20:58 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:17 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 22:34 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 22:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 19:40 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 20:00 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 20:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 20:51 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 5:18 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 21:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 21:51 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-31 1:44 ` [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' Ted Ts'o
2011-05-31 8:37 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 8:55 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 10:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 11:43 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 13:44 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 13:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 14:31 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 14:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31 12:12 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-31 12:32 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 12:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:06 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 11:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 17:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 18:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 20:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 20:30 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-30 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 21:16 ` Randy Dunlap
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