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On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:41, Rasmus Andersen wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:23:40PM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > Is there a quick way to access the help page of a singular module in the |
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> > kernel .config list, without having to fire up make menuconfig? |
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> > |
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> > Something on the CLI to access just one particular help page. |
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> I dont think there is a dedicated CLI tools for this, but the Kconfig |
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> files in the kernel directory contains the help text. So if you know the |
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> name of the config option is question (or its placement in the directory |
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> hierarcy) you can grep -r for it and read/grep/parse the Kconfig file in |
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> question. |
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Thank you Rasmus, that's what I was after. Using less on the relevant Kconfig |
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file shows me all the help files in a row for the particular module e.g. |
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less /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/drivers/rtc/Kconfig |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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