From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 14:14:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530121415.GG22324@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1105301255560.3164@localhost6.localdomain6>
* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> > OK, so to clarify, what you want is for ARCH=xxx to always override
> > whatever is in .config? Are we all on the same page here? I thought
> > David was arguing that what was in .config should always be more
> > important, since he regards "ARCH=xxxx" as "legacy".
>
> I am saying that we should not have that redundancy at all. ATM we *only*
> have it for CONFIG_64BIT and *only* on x86, not others like ppc/sh/sparc
> etc.
Even if we were ready to remove a feature that is 'only' available on
90%+ of development systems that kernel developers use today, we
probably couldn't do it due to the upstream kernel regression policy
anyway. Especially when there is no functionally equivalent
replacement.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-30 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-29 22:14 [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 8:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 9:27 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:06 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 10:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:01 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 11:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:12 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:55 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-05-30 10:09 ` [PATCH v2] x86, kconfig: Pick up the .config arch version " David Woodhouse
2011-06-24 13:37 ` Michal Marek
2011-06-24 14:45 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 10:42 ` [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 " Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 10:53 ` Theodore Tso
2011-05-30 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:04 ` Theodore Tso
2011-05-30 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 11:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-30 19:03 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 19:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-30 20:12 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 22:39 ` [PATCH] Enable 'make CONFIG_FOO=y oldconfig' David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 0:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-31 15:48 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 16:12 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-06-24 13:49 ` Michal Marek
2011-07-29 23:32 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 1:15 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 9:04 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 0:49 ` [PATCH v3] x86, kconfig: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 1:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 1:26 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 8:37 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 15:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 15:52 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 16:33 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 20:58 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:17 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 22:34 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-30 22:21 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-30 22:57 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 19:40 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 20:00 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 20:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 20:51 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 5:18 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 8:13 ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 21:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-31 21:51 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-31 1:44 ` [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig' Ted Ts'o
2011-05-31 8:37 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 8:55 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 10:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 11:43 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 13:44 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 13:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-31 14:31 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 14:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-31 12:12 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-31 12:32 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-31 12:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:06 ` David Woodhouse
2011-05-30 11:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 11:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 17:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 18:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 20:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-05-30 20:30 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-05-30 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-30 21:16 ` Randy Dunlap
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