linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing configuration

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Date:	Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:42:17 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: honor the ARCH setting of the existing
 configuration

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 19:05 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > I would love to see $ARCH turned into a proper configuration option.
> 
> I don't object in principle, but I'm expecting to have to modify/update
> multiple *working* scripts as a result.  But of course this won't be
> the first time and I don't expect it to be the last time either.
> [signed:  eeyore] 

:)

Yeah, that's why I'd kind of like to see it done *once*, *properly*.

Arnaud's hack to read it from .config is cute, but might give behaviour
that people will come to depend on in their scripts and then we take it
away again.

-- 
dwmw2

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