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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, LKML <linux-kernel@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibility ARCH={i386,x86_64} for x86
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 1:09 am

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:40:38PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:


I seriously question this would be "the right thing".

32/64bit isn't that special that this and only this option would require
special casing, and the KISS principle of having only one way to specify 
something like this has it's advantages.


cu
Adrian

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[PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibility AR..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 4:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibilit..., Roman Zippel, (Sun Nov 11, 10:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibilit..., Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Nov 12, 1:23 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibilit..., Adrian Bunk, (Sun Nov 11, 1:09 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibilit..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Nov 11, 7:54 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibilit..., Randy Dunlap, (Sat Nov 10, 6:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/5] introduce K64BIT=y and backward compatibilit..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 6:50 pm)
[PATCH] kconfig: factor out code in confdata.c, Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 4:43 pm)
[PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*config ta..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 4:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Wed Nov 14, 4:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Wed Nov 14, 6:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Thu Nov 15, 11:43 am)
kconfig: support option env="" [Was: kconfig: use $K64BIT to..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Jan 6, 9:26 am)
[PATCH 3/3] use environment option, Roman Zippel, (Sun Jan 13, 11:51 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] environment symbol support, Roman Zippel, (Sun Jan 13, 11:50 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] explicitly introduce expression list, Roman Zippel, (Sun Jan 13, 11:50 pm)
Re: kconfig: support option env="" [Was: kconfig: use $K64BI..., Roman Zippel, (Sun Jan 13, 11:49 pm)
Re: kconfig: support option env="" [Was: kconfig: use $K64BI..., Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Jan 14, 1:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Thu Nov 15, 3:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Thu Nov 15, 3:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Thu Nov 15, 4:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Thu Nov 15, 5:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Thu Nov 15, 6:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Thu Nov 15, 9:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Fri Nov 16, 1:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Fri Nov 16, 8:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Randy Dunlap, (Thu Nov 15, 11:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Roman Zippel, (Fri Nov 16, 9:02 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Randy Dunlap, (Sat Nov 10, 6:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 6:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Sat Nov 10, 4:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Adrian Bunk, (Sun Nov 11, 1:14 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Sun Nov 11, 8:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Adrian Bunk, (Sun Nov 11, 9:07 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Sun Nov 11, 10:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Nov 11, 11:30 am)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: use $K64BIT to set 64BIT with all*confi..., Guillaume Chazarain, (Sun Nov 11, 11:55 am)
[PATCH] x86: Use CONFIG_64BIT to select between 32 and 64 bi..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 4:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: Use CONFIG_64BIT to select between 32 and 6..., Randy Dunlap, (Sat Nov 10, 6:18 pm)
[PATCH] kconfig: document make K64BIT=y in README, Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 4:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] kconfig: document make K64BIT=y in README, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Nov 10, 6:23 pm)
[PATCH] x86: introduce ARCH=i386,ARCH=x86_64 to select 32/64..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Nov 10, 4:43 pm)