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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: willy@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_64_BIT
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 19:52:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030902195246.7ba3515c.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030902174436.GP13467@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:44:36 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > What do people think of CONFIG_64_BIT?  It saves us from using
> > > !(IA64 || MIPS64 || PARISC64 || S390X || SPARC64 || X86_64) or
> > 
> > For Kconfigs it may make sense, but is there any Config rule that 
> > checks for all 64bit archs (opposed to checking for specific archs)?
> > I cannot thinkg of any.
> 
> ... that was what the patch added.

It added a symbol that means that, but are there any users for it?

Ok, I2O and ATM and WANPIPE maybe but I assume that both are getting fixed
Still all those are non 64bit safe, so it may be better to have an 
CONFIG_32BIT_ONLY or similar.

-Andi
 
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:44:36 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > What do people think of CONFIG_64_BIT?  It saves us from using
> > > !(IA64 || MIPS64 || PARISC64 || S390X || SPARC64 || X86_64) or
> > 
> > For Kconfigs it may make sense, but is there any Config rule that 
> > checks for all 64bit archs (opposed to checking for specific archs)?
> > I cannot thinkg of any.
> 
> ... that was what the patch added.

It added a symbol that means that, but are there any users for it?

Ok, I2O and ATM and WANPIPE maybe but I assume that both are getting fixed
Still all those are non 64bit safe, so it may be better to have an 
CONFIG_32BIT_ONLY or similar.

-Andi
 

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-02 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030902143424.GO13467@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-09-02 17:35 ` CONFIG_64_BIT Andi Kleen
2003-09-02 17:44   ` CONFIG_64_BIT Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-02 17:52     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-09-03 13:37       ` CONFIG_64_BIT Alan Cox
2003-09-02 14:34 CONFIG_64_BIT Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-02 17:52 ` CONFIG_64_BIT Jeff Garzik
2003-09-03  8:39   ` CONFIG_64_BIT Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-03 10:10     ` CONFIG_64_BIT Andreas Schwab
2003-09-03 10:44       ` CONFIG_64_BIT Wade

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