Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2011 09:53:06 +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:
> And then this legacy trick of using the obsolete $ARCH settings to > override the setting of CONFIG_64BIT can be deprecated.
Sigh, nope. The two legacies we have should simply be turned into trivial aliases that map to the newfangled CONFIG_*=y way of doing things.
I'll always prefer typing:
make ARCH=x86_64 ...
To:
make ARCH=x86 CONFIG_64BIT=y ...
And others have expressed that in this thread too.
Really, guys, please stop breaking existing tools!
There is no problem to solve here, having ARCH=i386 and ARCH=x86_64 around does not hurt anyone, is well established and actively helps people so what's your problem?
I'll be happy to learn the new methods and will happily add them to the toolbox of existing methods.
Thanks,
Ingo
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