linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG

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Message-ID: <1312064244.22074.21.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:17:21 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid
 overriding CONFIG_64BIT

On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 15:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It isn't meaningless for exactly that reason.  For example,
> "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=i386" and "make ARCH=x86 USERARCH=x86_64" both
> make sense.  Similarly, "make ARCH=um USERARCH=i386" is different from
> "make ARCH=um USERARCH=x86_64". 

In that case it's redundant with CONFIG_64BIT, isn't it?

-- 
dwmw2

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