Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in'make oldconfig'

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 15:08:33 EST


On 09/04/2009 11:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Anyway... it sounds like we need to drop this commit for now and
> re-merge it when there is a fix for UM.
>
> Jeff, Sam, I would appreciate your suggestions as how best to fix this
> kind of stuff...
>

On that note, this issue isn't just limited to UM. klibc has to deal
with this issue too: a single kernel architecture may correspond to more
than one user-space architecture, and as far as userspace is concerned,
they are completely different.

-hpa

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