Except from Makefile: EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r2 but it must be EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo-r3 I set to critical because modules are overwritten, and this may cause problems when loading old kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3 2. compile kernel and make modules_install 3. verify modules are installaed in /lib/modules/2.4.23-gentoo-r2 Actual Results: cerri@cerrito on GSM modules $ ls -l totale 2691 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 512 7 gen 12:35 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 Expected Results: cerri@cerrito on GSM modules $ ls -l totale 2691 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 512 7 gen 12:35 2.4.22-gentoo-r3 cerri@cerrito on GSM modules $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031222-r0, 2.6.0-mm2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-mm2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -falign-functions=32 -fforce-addr" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /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/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gentoo http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.2/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.3/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.flashnet.it/mirror/12/sunsite.unc.edu/Gentoo http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ftp.edisontel.com/pub/Sunsite_Mirror http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portoverlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bluetooth bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib irda java jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod miknod mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang socks5 spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon"
This is definitely not an isolated case (happened to me and another developer also); and yes, it broke my old 2.4.22-r2 kernel.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37444 ***