Re: [PATCH] Fix corruption of CONFIG_X86_32 in 'make oldconfig'

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 09:23 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > You thoroughly misunderstood my prior regression report, the problem 
> > with your patch was that your patch actually *broke* existing 
> > filtered-randconfig behavior, for example trying to get a 64-bit 
> > randconfig:
> > 
> >   make ARCH=x86_64 randconfig
> > 
> > ... will today produce a 64-bit randconfig while with your old change 
> > applied it produced a 32-bit randconfig 50% of the time.
> 
> I believe that this 'filtered randconfig' behaviour is now fairly much
> the *only* use for the old 'ARCH=i386' and 'ARCH=x86_64'.

I use "make ARCH=i386 defconfig" and "make ARCH=x86_64 defconfig" all 
the time.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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