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On 02/27/2014 06:04 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 26/02/2014 21:58, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> Hello all, |
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>> This is for those of use who to choose to roll our kernels by hand... |
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>> So, am I missing something? |
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>> Given the most recent gentoo news item: |
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>>> # eselect news read 10 |
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>>> 2014-02-25-udev-upgrade |
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>>> Title Upgrade to >=sys-fs/udev-210 |
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>>> Author Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> |
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>>> Posted 2014-02-25 |
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>>> Revision 1 |
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>>> |
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>>> The options CONFIG_FHANDLE and CONFIG_NET are now required in the kernel. |
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>> Whenever kernel config options are provided like this, it would be nice |
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>> if time was taken to provide the path to where they are found. |
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> |
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> make menuconfig |
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> press "/" |
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> type CONFIG_FHANDLE |
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> press enter |
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> profit!!! |
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> [Note the lack of ??? in the list] |
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> works like searching in vi or less |
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>> I had to find the first one (CONFIG_FHANDLE) by: |
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>> 1. grepping .config, seeing it wasn't enabled, |
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>> 2. running make menuconfig and searching for 'FHANDLE', |
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>> 3. seeing it is located in 'General setup', |
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>> 4. scouring the General setup options, finding no 'FHANLDE' anywhere, |
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>> 5. finding something in all lowercase named 'open by fhanlde syscalls', |
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>> 6. enabling this option, saving the modified config, |
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>> 7. confirming it is now enabled by grepping .config again |
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>> Sheesh. Really? |
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>> Would be nice if the news item had something like |
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>> CONFIG_FHANDLE (General setup > 'open by fhandle syscalls') |
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>> and |
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>> CONFIG_NET (still don't know which one this is??) |
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>> Wackadoo... |
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If you have ncurses you can also do # make nconfig |
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you can then press F8 to find the category to be in |
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then you can press / to search -- crucially it will jump to the location |
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on the screen |
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