From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Cao Jin <pino.cao2022@gmail.com>,
nsc@kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: improve sanity check for ARCH variable on x86
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:59:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261020005956.GAata9DF4VOpqO71es@fat_crate.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261020003625.GA787785@ax162>
On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 05:36:25PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 05:17:38PM -0700, Cao Jin wrote:
> > When building for x86, ARCH=i{4,5,6}86 and x86_32 will fail the build.
>
> Thanks for the patch. Where is it documented that these other options
> are valid? It seems like this is just expected behavior because these
> are not valid values for setting ARCH for x86. At the very least, I
> think something like this needs to be acked by the x86 folks.
I hardly doubt that it'll ever be without a proper explanation why.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-20 0:17 [PATCH] kbuild: improve sanity check for ARCH variable on x86 Cao Jin
2026-10-20 0:36 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-10-20 0:59 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2026-10-20 1:26 ` Cao Jin
2026-10-20 1:33 ` Cao Jin
2026-10-20 1:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-10-20 1:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-10-20 1:51 ` Cao Jin
2026-10-21 0:17 ` sashiko-bot
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