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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Peeve - finding kernel config options
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:41:55
Message-Id: 530F94F8.2060902@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Peeve - finding kernel config options by "Poison BL."
1 Poison BL. wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson <dan@×××.nu> wrote:
4 >>> On 26.02.2014 22:24, Poison BL. wrote:
5 >>>> When I search FHANDLE in menuconfig I get:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> │ Symbol: FHANDLE [=y]
8 >>>> │ Type : boolean
9 >>>> │ Prompt: open by fhandle syscalls
10 >>>> │ Location:
11 >>>> │ (1) -> General setup
12 >>>> │ Defined at init/Kconfig:235
13 >>>> │ Selects: EXPORTFS [=y]
14 >>>> │ Selected by: GENTOO_LINUX_INIT_SYSTEMD [=y] && GENTOO_LINUX [=y]
15 >>>> && GENTOO_LINUX_UDEV [=y]
16 >>>>
17 >>>> This clearly states that the prompt you're looking for is a line that
18 >>>> says "open by fhandle syscalls" under "General setup"
19 >>>>
20 >>>> Sure, it's not the absolute simplest interface (i.e. it doesn't give a
21 >>>> 'enable this' in the search results) but it does give all the
22 >>>> necessary information about a given option to find it (as well as
23 >>>> dependencies and their current states, etc). The most likely reason
24 >>>> the news item doesn't list the specific "prompt" text (or even the
25 >>>> category) is that, across even sub release versions of the kernel
26 >>>> those are prone to change (and, at times, drastically) while the
27 >>>> actual CONFIG_<name> option tends to be fairly static through time
28 >>>> once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older
29 >>>> IDE/ATA/ATAPI options vs newer PATA options).
30 >>>
31 >>> But if you press "1" in the example above you will "jump" directly to
32 >>> the menu item. Clue --> (1)
33 >>
34 >> And that is by far the HANDIEST tip from this thread... awesome! Thx Dan!
35 >>
36 > That.. really is the most useful thing I've learned in a fair while.
37 >
38
39 Oh goody. Surely it can't be that easy tho. Don't we have to cross our
40 toes first or something? That is one neato tip.
41
42 < thumbs up >
43
44 Dale
45
46 :-) :-)
47
48 --
49 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!