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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-02-27, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
> 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.

Doh! I was wrong.  It _does_ show it.  It just doesn't show it where
I've been looking for it to be for the past 20 years:

   Symbol: E1000 [=n]
      Type  : tristate
>>>   Prompt: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
        Location:
          -> Device Drivers
            -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
              -> Ethernet driver support (ETHERNET [=y])
      (2)       -> Intel devices (NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y])
        Defined at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig:47
        Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] && PCI [=y]

The bottom level menu entry is shown at the _top_ rather than where I
always expected the bottom level to be shown (at the bottom):

   Symbol: E1000 [=n]
      Type  : tristate
        Location:
          -> Device Drivers
            -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
              -> Ethernet driver support (ETHERNET [=y])
      (2)       -> Intel devices (NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y])
>>>               -> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support
        Defined at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig:47
        Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] && PCI [=y]

How embarassing...

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