Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2011 13:42:14 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' |
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* 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,
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