linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86, kconfig: Pick up the .config arch version in 'make oldconfig'

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Message-ID: <1308926707.28473.66.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:45:06 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86, kconfig: Pick up the .config arch version in
 'make oldconfig'

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:37 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> 
> This breaks all{mod,yes}config on 32bit and allnoconfig on 64bit (and 
> randconfig sometimes :)). The user expectation is that make 
> defconfig/allmodconfig/allyesconfig builds a kernel for their 
> architecture. You only handle defconfig below. 

It's a broken expectation.

Your architecture is x86. You are building the kernel in arch/x86.

Your architecture is not "i386 with PAE" or "i386 without PAE" or
"x86_64 with VT-x". Those are *configuration* options.

If you want the Aunt Tillie "configure for my machine" option, that's
something different. And uninteresting.

-- 
dwmw2

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