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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julian Braha Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 05:33:18 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: cleanup duplicate dependencies in Kconfig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20260531065743.1408481-1-julianbraha@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Julian Braha In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 5/31/26 08:05, Ingo Molnar wrote: > in practice it's useful to see 'at a glance' whether such a > CPU config option is 32-bit only, 64-bit only or generic. Hi Ingo, What do you think about using comments for this? Having spent quite a bit of time looking at Kconfig, I think that comments are underused. - Julian Braha