Bugzilla Bug 215442

As per the summary. Try exporting ARCH to "i386" or "x86_64" then run:

# make mrproper
# make menuconfig

Compare and contrast with:

# make mrproper
# make defconfig
# make menuconfig

This is causing havoc; I've lost count of the number of people who have come
into #gentoo complaining that they can't find required options (espsecially due
ot CONFIG_PCI  being disabled) and it's causing a significant inflation of
other common kernel configuration problems. The worst affected is the new user,
who has neither /boot mounted with a prior config or is in a position to run
make oldconfig. Not ideal.

I've not yet looked into why this is but assume it has something to do with the
x86 architecture merge. Please can we get a fix into genpatches ASAP? In fact,
I'd like to see this go into the stable queue - although upstream may not care
as kernel configuration is considered to be a matter for distro vendors to
consider rather than end-users.

A temporary workaround has been committed to the tree. Keeping this bug open
until a proper fix exists upstream.

releng friends: Please consider including the latest kernel-2.eclass file which
contains the temporary workaround that addresses this bug.

(In reply to comment #2)
> releng friends: Please consider including the latest kernel-2.eclass file which
> contains the temporary workaround that addresses this bug.

I added it to the snapshot, so someone blame me if stuff breaks ...

will track the upstream bug report now

for reference: the change we made in the tree to work around the issue is just
to run "make defconfig" on affected systems after kernel sources have been
installed (kernel-2.eclass modification)

upstream patch available

*** Bug 220031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

OK, should I pull the eclass or will you be rolling another genpatches version
with this fixed?

Will do another 2.6.24 release today, mark stable tomorrow, then request that
you include the new gentoo-sources/genpatches for 2008.0 (assuming there is
still time).

The eclass hack will also be dropped tomorrow, and if possible it would be good
to get that removed from the snapshot too. It had some undesirable side effects
(although only minor)

Sounds good.  Just add release to CC on the stabilization bug.

fixed in gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r7 and gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r2. eclass hack
removed.

Chris, 2.6.24-r7 has been marked stable, there is no stabilisation bug because
I do it myself. Please add 2.6.24-r7 to the snapshot and revert the eclass
change you made earlier. Do you want a new bug for this request?

Updated in the release snapshot...