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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] x86/kconfig: Rename x86_64_defconfig to defconfig.x86_64 and i386_defconfig to defconfig.i386
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 15:16:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aCXpHZ6_ezk4sxto@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0591fcab-fb19-451f-a27b-1b449b2af4b9@app.fastmail.com>


* Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2025, at 19:09, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Editing the defconfigs with shell filename completion is unnecessarily
> > hard due to bad naming: if one remembers 'arch/x86/config/defconfig',
> > it won't lead to the right files, because the defconfigs are
> > prefixed with $(ARCH)_.
> >
> > Under the principle of 'higher order names should go first', prefix
> > them with 'defconfig' and postfix them with .$(ARCH), and thus make
> > all x86 configs match the arch/x86/config/defconfig.* pattern.
> 
> I think this patch should be dropped completely, it as it causes
> multiple problems:
> 
> - it breaks existing scripts that use 'make x86_64_defconfig'
> - it breaks 'make help' automatically printing the names
>   of the defconfigs
> - it's inconsistent with the other architectures

Oh well, I've removed patches #3 and #4.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-15 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-06 17:09 [PATCH -v2 00/15] x86/kconfig: Enable various kernel features in the defconfig, add the 'x86_32' subarchitecture build target and misc cleanups Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 01/15] x86/kconfig/64: Refresh defconfig Ingo Molnar
2025-05-07  5:31   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-05-07  6:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 02/15] x86/kconfig/32: " Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 03/15] x86/kconfig: Rename x86_64_defconfig to defconfig.x86_64 and i386_defconfig to defconfig.i386 Ingo Molnar
2025-05-09 18:10   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-05-15 13:16     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 04/15] x86/kbuild: Introduce the 'x86_32' subarchitecture Ingo Molnar
2025-05-07  5:44   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-05-07  6:35     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-09 12:04       ` David Laight
2025-05-09 18:00         ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-09 18:05       ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 05/15] x86/kbuild: Remove ancient 'arch/i386/' and 'arch/x86_64/' directory removal 'archclean' target Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 06/15] x86/tools: insn_decoder_test.c: Emit standard build success messages Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 07/15] x86/tools: insn_sanity.c: " Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 08/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable the KVM host in the defconfig Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 09/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable more virtualization guest options in the defconfig: enable Xen, Xen_PVH, Jailhouse, ACRN, Intel TDX and Hyper-V Ingo Molnar
2025-05-08  9:21   ` Jürgen Groß
2025-05-15 13:19     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 10/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable BPF support in the defconfig Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 11/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular MM options " Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 12/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular kernel debugging " Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 13/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular scheduler, cgroups and namespaces " Ingo Molnar
2025-05-07  3:00   ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-07  7:06     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-07 11:42       ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-07 16:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-08  5:56           ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-22  5:49           ` Yafang Shao
2025-05-07  5:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-05-07 16:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-28 17:22   ` Michal Koutný
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 14/15] x86/kconfig/64: Enable popular generic kernel " Ingo Molnar
2025-05-06 17:09 ` [PATCH 15/15] x86/kconfig/32: Synchronize the x86-32 defconfig to the x86-64 defconfig Ingo Molnar
2025-05-07  5:27   ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-05-07 17:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-07 17:55       ` Arnd Bergmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-05-05 11:09 [PATCH 00/15] x86/kconfig: Enable various kernel features in the defconfig, add the 'x86_32' subarchitecture build target and misc cleanups Ingo Molnar
2025-05-05 11:09 ` [PATCH 03/15] x86/kconfig: Rename x86_64_defconfig to defconfig.x86_64 and i386_defconfig to defconfig.i386 Ingo Molnar

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