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Important proposal
I am currently thinking about moving this package to my Forgejo (self-hostable git forge) instance at https://git.staropensource.de and creating a push mirror to the AUR, pushing changes to the AUR around every hour. Issue requests will be enabled except for bug reports and help requests to avoid people needing to create another account just for one package if they need help.

I would like to get some feedback on this proposal before actually moving the package over.

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Updates
I usually publish updates 0-3 days after a kernel release, depending on how busy I am.
If I however get wind of security-relevant updates or any vulnerabilities I will try to update the kernel as soon as possible and write a comment about the vulnerability/update. So make sure to subscribe to this package's comment mailing list.

The PKGBUILD supports customization via environment variables. Here's a list of all of them:
_makemenuconfig: Invokes make menuconfig (default configuration menu) before compilation starts
_makenconfig: Invokes make nconfig (nicer configuration menu) before compilation starts
_makexconfig: Invokes make xconfig (GUI configuration menu) before compilation starts
_use_current: Will use the configuration of the running kernel, if the running kernel is compiled with IKCONFIG_PROC
_copyfinalconfig: Copies the final kernel configuration into the repository root as kconfig-new before compilation starts
_localmodcfg: Only compiles modules found in modprobed-db's database (which decreases compilation time and kernel size)
_use_llvm_lto: Compiles the kernel with LLVM instead of GCC. Should work, if not write a comment
_subarch: Specifies the sub architecture to compile for (see the PKGBUILD file for a list of all subarches). Default is 40 (Generic-x86-64), which is compatible with all amd64 processors. Must be a number
_debug: Force enables debug options when set to y, force disables debug options when set to n or uses the config defaults when unset

All of these variables just need to be set for them to apply, except for _subarch and _debug. See their descriptions for more information.

If you want a dead simple way to compile this package, you can try out my build tool. It includes a few no nonsense changes to the kernel configuration and allows you to configure the PKGBUILD in a simple manner and decrease build time. And if you don't want that, using makepkg as-is works fine too.

GPG errors
If makepkg complains about invalid PGP keys, try running this command first: gpg --locate-keys torvalds@kernel.org gregkh@kernel.org sashal@kernel.org benh@debian.org. This only needs to be done once.

@ltsdw If you need user_crypto module then you'll have to enable it CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER since this .config doesn't. I mentioned this somewhere in comments bellow.

This module is built in stock arch kernel though.

Having problem with bluez, if I uncomment user_crypto line in /usr/lib/modules-load.d/bluez.conf will fail to load systemd-modules-load at boot, basicly journalctl acuses not finding user_crypto module. Works well in arch's kernel, some idea?

@enihcam I will probably enable it by default with next update.

@E5ten No, but the kernel has to be packaged differently if you want to use clr-boot-manager.

Is it required to use clr-boot-manager with the clear kernel?

linux-clear is going to be the most popular kernel package in AUR. Keep it up!

Also, I think it is safe to unlock additional gcc CPU optimizatons by default. It does not change any kernel logics. It just provides some more compiler options.

Now ok... Thanks :-)

@Athemis Sorry about that, fixed now. I basically have three slightly different pkgbuild files to update (local, aur, and obs for binaries)... ;-)

Thanks for keeping this up to date! However, 4.17.1 fails to compile for me, unless I change $_clearver to 27b762cf009a56fa47e00660d602f9db4b672ffb.

@gaougalos That's expected if you're building this kernel on top of the default arch kernel since all those config options are not present in default clear .config but are in stock arch.

When i enable localmodconfig it returns

==> Running Steven Rostedt's make localmodconfig now
using config: '.config'
acpi_call config not found!!
WARNING: LZ4_COMPRESS is required, but nothing in the
  current config selects it.
WARNING: LZ4_COMPRESS is required, but nothing in the
  current config selects it.
module mei did not have configs CONFIG_INTEL_MEI
module crct10dif_pclmul did not have configs CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRCT10DIF_PCLMUL
module input_leds did not have configs CONFIG_INPUT_LEDS
module mei_me did not have configs CONFIG_INTEL_MEI_ME
module joydev did not have configs CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV
module agpgart did not have configs CONFIG_AGP
module lz4 did not have configs CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4
module uas did not have configs CONFIG_USB_UAS
module algif_aead did not have configs CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD
module iTCO_vendor_support did not have configs CONFIG_ITCO_WDT
module ghash_clmulni_intel did not have configs CONFIG_CRYPTO_GHASH_CLMUL_NI_INTEL
module lz4_compress did not have configs CONFIG_LZ4_COMPRESS
module intel_agp did not have configs CONFIG_AGP_INTEL
module iTCO_wdt did not have configs CONFIG_ITCO_WDT
module f2fs did not have configs CONFIG_F2FS_FS
module mac_hid did not have configs CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN
module crc32_pclmul did not have configs CONFIG_CRYPTO_CRC32_PCLMUL
module pcspkr did not have configs CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR
module crypto_user did not have configs CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER
module ax25 did not have configs CONFIG_AX25
module ath3k did not have configs CONFIG_BT_ATH3K
module mousedev did not have configs CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV