linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Don't silently override CONFIG

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Date:	Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:27:18 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, sam@...nborg.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	David.Woodhouse@...el.com, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in
 'make oldconfig'

On 09/04/2009 08:33 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> 
>>> x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in 'make oldconfig'
>>
>> -tip testing found that this commit broke the UML build:
>>
>> /home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile:52:
>> /home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile-x86: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
>> `/home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile-x86'.  Stop.
>> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> 
> Hm, doesn't that mean that UML has always been broken for ARCH=x86?
> 

Quite possible.  ARCH=x86 hasn't exactly been widely used.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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