Bugzilla Bug 137147

I just upgraded to the 2.6.17 kernel get a linking error during the emerge of
alsa-driver. (See attachement)

Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms splitdebug
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="sv en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl
/usr/portage/local/layman/portage-xgl"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acpi aiglx akode alsa apm arts artswrappersuid asf avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cli crypt cups dbus
dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode exscalibar foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glitz
gmb gnome gpm gst gstreamer10 gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg
kde lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libsvg_cairo libwww mad mikmod mime mmap mmx
mmxext mono motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis
opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline real
reflection samba sdl session sharedmem spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd threads
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2
video_cards_radeon vorbis wifi win32codecs xanim xcomposite xine xinerama xml2
xmms xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux
linguas_sv linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_ati"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Created an attachment (id=89445) [edit]
log of the failed emerge

I came across this through google:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=463343

It's not in english but easily understood.

Well not much of a problem if it's not in English, it's in Italian so I can
understand it.

The method used is wrong, but now that I know the problem is not isolated (I
can't reproduce) I know how to fix it. Give me some time.

Not saying it doesn't break nothing, since I know nothing about kernel
internals, but it does compile and get me working sound :P.

If you compile the kernel that modified, you're going to be in real trouble.
Please don't submit any bug until you remove the changed sources, and rebuild a
clean kernel.

I've committed the real fix on alsa-driver-1.0.11 (look at ChangeLog after sync
to see if you have the fixed version).