when updating gentoo-kernel with USE=savedconfig the build fails on attempting to build drivers for hardware i do not own or have enabled in my kernel configuration at /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel. specifically disabling the affected hardware in my config, caused yet another seemingly random device to get set as =m and fail to build. next, i copy my kernel config into the temporary build dir for the kernel and ran make oldconfig ...i was presented with numerous options for y/n/m including the affected hardware and of note, they were default =n. not sure why they were getting enabled but after running make oldconfig and copy the temporary config back to my savedconfig dir, everything did build as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.sync and update from gentoo-kernel 6.13.x to 6.14.x 2.observe build failure due to attempted building of un-needed module 3.find a way to run make oldconfig against your kernel config and substitute the resultant config Actual Results: build fails on seemingly random hardware modules that are not configured Expected Results: build should succeed emerge --info Portage 3.0.67 (python 3.13.2-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-14, glibc-2.40-r8, 6.13.10-x86_64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-6.13.10-x86_64-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-4690K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-glibc2.40 KiB Mem: 16329260 total, 9350240 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:20:19 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 70be400266fedd55ccf255582f02c79e714d6e25 sh bash 5.2_p37 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.44 p1) 2.44.0 app-misc/pax-utils: 1.3.8::gentoo app-shells/bash: 5.2_p37::gentoo dev-build/autoconf: 2.72-r1::gentoo dev-build/automake: 1.17-r1::gentoo dev-build/cmake: 3.31.5::gentoo dev-build/libtool: 2.5.4::gentoo dev-build/make: 4.4.1-r100::gentoo dev-build/meson: 1.7.0::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.40.0-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.12.9::gentoo, 3.13.2::gentoo dev-lang/rust-bin: 1.84.1-r2::gentoo llvm-core/clang: 19.1.7::gentoo llvm-core/lld: 19.1.7::gentoo llvm-core/llvm: 19.1.7::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.17::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.56::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.39::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.44::gentoo sys-devel/binutils-config: 5.5.2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 14.2.1_p20241221::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.12.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 6.14::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.40-r8::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git priority: -1000 volatile: False sync-git-verify-commit-signature: yes local location: 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build log in url, sorry... i had already lost it since it was able to complete the build after running make oldconfig in the temporarily build directory
Please provide your saved config for 6.13.
Created attachment 924108 [details] saved-config for 6.13.10 attached
Created attachment 924109 [details] build log with failure the build log from failed upgrade
I think this is the intended behaviour, config options not set in the savedconfig take their default from the Gentoo/Fedora config (not the upstream default). Hence whatever is not explicitly disabled, might end up being enabled.
I wouldn't expect that to lead to a build failure though, just extra modules being built (successfully).
of course the build failures are what brought it to my attention, but i would rather not have any modules built "behind my back"..i try to keep a tight .config, very few modules. can we not just assume "no" to any new drivers? if i added any hardware..i'd seek out the driver.
I think you really need to just regenerate the savedconfig on new major versions then. oldnoconfig or whatever the equivalent is these days would cause other problems. We can't read your mind in the ebuild.
