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Message-ID: <20100527090329.GF5349@cr0.nay.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:03:29 +0800 From: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: config automatically switches from 32-bit to 64-bit for x86 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:53:41AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:39:51AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: >>> >>>But I wonder then what is the point/use of CONFIG_X86_32 if compiler >>>is not listening to it. >>> >>>Logically compiler should set appropriate flags based on .config settings. >>> >> >> It's not compiler, it's kbuild, kbuild tries to determine the arch >> by 'uname -m'. >> > >Ahh, then kbuild is buggy, kbuild should check .config instead of >'uname -m' and verify from user if it mismatches. > Why? You didn't use 'make oldconfig', why shoud it check? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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