Bug 492260

Summary:	Suggest using upstream default config of kernel, instead of genkernel version
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Raymond Jennings <shentino>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bkohler, zerochaos
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Raymond Jennings 2013-11-21 23:28:56 UTC

upstream kernel already has sane built in default config, and I've seen a few bugs where genkernel doing it the hard way is causing problems.

Suggest letting genkernel use whatever the kernel's own default config is.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-11-22 00:25:05 UTC

Upstream config is not going to enable NEARLY enough drivers for a usable "genkernel all" for most users.  Genkernel's configs need reworking, but I'm fairly sure that using upstream configs is NOT going to be the solution.

Comment 2 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev

2013-11-22 01:18:22 UTC

how about "allyesconfig"?

Comment 3 Raymond Jennings 2015-08-30 18:49:36 UTC

What about maintaining the genkernel specific portion as simply a diff against the upstream default?

Might make it easier to maintain when upstream changes.

Comment 4 Robin Johnson archtester

2017-09-07 00:48:35 UTC

This is already done with the newer kernel-generic-config + arch-config stuff.