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Message-ID: <20071106012916.GE3444@stusta.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:29:16 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace "make ARCH=i386/x86_64 with make ARCH=x86"
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:46:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 01:36:42PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>>> > Like this:
>>> > $ make ARCH=foo
>>> > Makefile:201: *** "ERROR: ARCH (foo) does not exist". Stop.
>>>
>>> Seems sane, but maybe it would be worth putting in a special case
>>> check for someone using i386 or x86_64 for ARCH, and tell them to
>>> switch to x86?
>>
>> Will do so if my patchset gets applied. Need to redo it but
>> that will be later this week and then I hope for a bit more
>> feedback from the x86 guys.
>
> The patchset has looked good to me, and I believe it would be better to
> take this particular breakage sooner rather than later.
>
> I haven't spoken up actively mostly because I wanted to look at the user
> comments as they have been coming in.
>
> The issue with "make allyesconfig" concerns me, although the same situation
> already exists with any multiple-choice configuration. What I guess we
> really want is to be able to specify a few specific choices.
It's already available:
$ cat myconfig
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
CONFIG_SMP=n
CONFIG_PCI=n
CONFIG_IPV6=m
$ make allyesconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=myconfig
> -hpa
cu
Adrian
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