From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754147Ab3ALRky (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:40:54 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33647 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753743Ab3ALRkx (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:40:53 -0500 Message-ID: <50F1A004.4090200@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:40:20 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , David Woodhouse , mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@linux.intel.com, David.Woodhouse@intel.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/build] x86: Default to ARCH= x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT References: <1356040315.3198.51.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20130112170647.GA10659@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20130112170647.GA10659@liondog.tnic> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/12/2013 09:06 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Ok, I don't know whether this was on purpose or not but setting ARCH=x86 > has the side effect of putting the config 64BIT prompt into the toplevel > menuconfig: > > [*] 64-bit kernel > General setup ---> > [*] Enable loadable module support ---> > [*] Enable the block layer ---> > Processor type and features ---> > > Now, IMHO, maybe the more fitting place for this should be "Processor > type and features" where all the arch-specific stuff goes but looking at > arch/x86/Kconfig, it would need some restructuring due to dependencies. > > So how about we simply hide it by still preserving the functionality: > Hiding it because it happens to be in a slightly illogical place seems completely backwards. -hpa