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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:03:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100527090329.GF5349@cr0.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilZ99VsmLuYoLlYItYAMtQQq6zTOQ2iEAdEm7pk@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:53:41AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:39:51AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>>>
>>>But I wonder then what is the point/use of CONFIG_X86_32 if compiler
>>>is not listening to it.
>>>
>>>Logically compiler should set appropriate flags based on .config settings.
>>>
>>
>> It's not compiler, it's kbuild, kbuild tries to determine the arch
>> by 'uname -m'.
>>
>
>Ahh, then kbuild is buggy, kbuild should check .config instead of
>'uname -m' and verify from user if it mismatches.
>

Why? You didn't use 'make oldconfig', why shoud it check?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-27  0:07 config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86 Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-27  0:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-27  4:09   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-27  4:31     ` Américo Wang
2010-05-27  5:23       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-27  9:03         ` Américo Wang [this message]
2010-05-27  5:31       ` Randy Dunlap
2010-05-27 16:19         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-05-27 20:21           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-05-27 15:19   ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-05-27 15:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-27 16:11   ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-05-27 16:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-27 16:35       ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-05-27 18:46   ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-05-27 22:07     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-29 11:19       ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-05-29 17:19         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-06-02  8:20           ` Américo Wang
2010-06-02  8:50             ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-06-03 13:30     ` Michal Marek
2010-06-04  6:23       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-06-04  7:53         ` Michal Marek
2010-06-06  4:14           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput

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