From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754136Ab3ALSK2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:10:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33829 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753917Ab3ALSK1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: <50F1A6FE.3040909@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:10:06 -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> <50F1A004.4090200@zytor.com> <20130112180845.GB10630@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20130112180845.GB10630@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.