linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG

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Message-ID: <50F1A6FE.3040909@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:10:06 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, mingo@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...ux.intel.com, David.Woodhouse@...el.com,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding
 CONFIG_64BIT

On 01/12/2013 10:08 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 09:40:20AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Hiding it because it happens to be in a slightly illogical place seems
>> completely backwards.
>
> Sure, that's the lazy dude solution™ :-)
>
> I could try to restructure arch/x86/Kconfig but is it worth the trouble
> to fix the "slightly illogical" placing...
>

Well, it's more than that.  It is actually removing functionality 
because it is "illogically placed"... that cure is worse than the disease.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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