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

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Message-ID: <aCXpHZ6_ezk4sxto@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 15:16:13 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "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


* Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> 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

Oh well, I've removed patches #3 and #4.

Thanks,

	Ingo