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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] x86: allow 64bit setting in Kconfig

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> > make ARCH=i386 randconfig
> >
> > on a 64-bit box that has a 32-bit .config in its kernel directory.
> >
> > The randconfig/allyesconfig/allnoconfig variants override whatever
> > is in the current .config. Making the result depend on whatever is
> > in the .config at the moment is fundamentally wrong.
> >
> > "oldconfig" on the other hand has correct sensitivity to the
> > existing .config - and that always worked correctly. So if you pop a
> > 32-bit or a 64-bit .config into a kernel tree, that will be listened
> > to, no matter whether you are on a 32-bit or on a 64-bit host.
>
> Do you have ARCH=x86 set in your environment, the command line or
> patched into your Makefile when this works for you?

nope, it happens with vanilla and no ARCH environment variable set that
i know of. So you cannot see this behavior?

Ingo


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