linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/15] x86/kconfig: Rename x86_64_defconfig to defconfig.x86_64 and i386

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Message-Id: <0591fcab-fb19-451f-a27b-1b449b2af4b9@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2025 20:10:44 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
 "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
 "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp@...en8.de>,
 "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
 "Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@...hat.com>, "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@...nel.org>,
 "David Woodhouse" <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
 "Masahiro Yamada" <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
 "Michal Marek" <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] x86/kconfig: Rename x86_64_defconfig to defconfig.x86_64 and
 i386_defconfig to defconfig.i386

On Tue, May 6, 2025, at 19:09, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Editing the defconfigs with shell filename completion is unnecessarily
> hard due to bad naming: if one remembers 'arch/x86/config/defconfig',
> it won't lead to the right files, because the defconfigs are
> prefixed with $(ARCH)_.
>
> Under the principle of 'higher order names should go first', prefix
> them with 'defconfig' and postfix them with .$(ARCH), and thus make
> all x86 configs match the arch/x86/config/defconfig.* pattern.

I think this patch should be dropped completely, it as it causes
multiple problems:

- it breaks existing scripts that use 'make x86_64_defconfig'
- it breaks 'make help' automatically printing the names
  of the defconfigs
- it's inconsistent with the other architectures

       Arnd