Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:25:36PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:31 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >>> On 16.05.19 at 02:02, <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > At least to me it is far from obvious why we would want/need to
> > do this update, or where the canonical "latest version" lives and
> > hence where this is coming from. Another question might be
> > whether it is a good thing to pull this in as a single blob (covering
> > a gap of 7 years), thus presumably also discarding authorship
> > of dozens of people. But of course, in the end it's the people
> > you've Cc-ed who need to decide whether this is fine to take in
> > this shape.
> 
> No body should be editing this file. Ideally it would be autogenerated
> by autoconf, but as we define AC_CANONICAL_HOST the file is not
> generated (see [1]).
> 
> I have updated the commit to include the upstream SHA where we are
> getting the file from.
> 
> The current file is so old that it doesn't support new architectures
> such as RISC-V.
> 

I think this is a strong argument for updating config.sub.

Wei.

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