[gentoo-user] Re: Peeve - finding kernel config options

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-02-27, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> make menuconfig
> press "/"
> type CONFIG_FHANDLE
> press enter
> profit!!!
>
> [Note the lack of ??? in the list]
>
> works like searching in vi or less

The issue I occasionally have with that is that it only tells you the
name of the CONFIG_ variable.  It doesn't tell you what the menu entry
is.  It's not always obvious what menu entry corresponds to 
CONFIG_<whatever>, and you sometimes have to work your way down the
menu looking at the help for each one until you find the one you're
looking for.  This seems to a problem I run into regularly for things
like network drivers.  The CONFIG_ variable name usually matches the
module name, but but there's often little or no correlation between
the CONFIG_ name and the menu entry you use to enable/disable it.

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