linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] x86: unify Kconfig files

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Message-ID: <472A435A.5030508@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:21:30 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] x86: unify Kconfig files

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:55:01PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> It has been requested that we should let x86 behave like
>> other architectures so we at config time decide for 32 or 64 bit.
>> The challenge here is to mere the Kconfig files and I have done
>> an attempt to do so.
> 
> Just a heads up...
> I have started to redo the patch below in smaller chunks and expect
> to finish this tomorrow.
> The cpufreq Kconfig file is done so no need for help here.
> 
> I hope to make the patches small enough so we can be confident to
> apply them despite that we are heading -rc2.
> It would be nice to get "make ARCH=x86" working before next
> kernel release - and with the Kconfig files merged this is trivial.
> I hope the x86 maintainers agree - but that yours decision.
> 

I looked over your patch yesterday and it looked sane to me, but I would 
definitely prefer if it was broken up for reviewability.

	-hpa
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