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

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Message-ID: <4AA164C0.9080003@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:04:32 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, 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 11:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Anyway... it sounds like we need to drop this commit for now and
> re-merge it when there is a fix for UM.
> 
> Jeff, Sam, I would appreciate your suggestions as how best to fix this
> kind of stuff...
> 

On that note, this issue isn't just limited to UM.  klibc has to deal
with this issue too: a single kernel architecture may correspond to more
than one user-space architecture, and as far as userspace is concerned,
they are completely different.

	-hpa

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