linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: don't select 64 bit option on sparc32 all{yes,mod}config

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Date:	Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:10:03 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: don't select 64 bit option on sparc32 all{yes,mod}config

On 22.10.2010 17:48, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The SPARC architecture provides 64BIT config option to select
> build type and it is set to 1 on ARCH=sparc64 as a default value.
> But in case of 32-bit, it is also set to 1 by the allyesconfig
> logic, end result would be the same as of sparc64. So I think
> it would be better if plain ARCH=sparc all{yes,mod}config do not
> set it then we can test 32-bit build by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/confdata.c |    4 ++++

Can't this be fixed in the sparc Makefile/Kconfig instead? E.g. have
ARCH=sparc -> ask
ARCH=sparc64 -> CONFIG_64BIT=y
ARCH=sparc32 -> # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
like the x86/i386/x86_64 ARCH option for x86.

Michal
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