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

[Poison BL.]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson <dan@×××.nu> wrote:
>>
>> On 26.02.2014 22:24, Poison BL. wrote:
>>>
>>> When I search FHANDLE in menuconfig I get:
>>>
>>>    │ Symbol: FHANDLE [=y]
>>>    │ Type  : boolean
>>>    │ Prompt: open by fhandle syscalls
>>>    │   Location:
>>>    │ (1) -> General setup
>>>    │   Defined at init/Kconfig:235
>>>    │   Selects: EXPORTFS [=y]
>>>    │   Selected by: GENTOO_LINUX_INIT_SYSTEMD [=y] && GENTOO_LINUX [=y]
>>> && GENTOO_LINUX_UDEV [=y]
>>>
>>> This clearly states that the prompt you're looking for is a line that
>>> says "open by fhandle syscalls" under "General setup"
>>>
>>> Sure, it's not the absolute simplest interface (i.e. it doesn't give a
>>> 'enable this' in the search results) but it does give all the
>>> necessary information about a given option to find it (as well as
>>> dependencies and their current states, etc). The most likely reason
>>> the news item doesn't list the specific "prompt" text (or even the
>>> category) is that, across even sub release versions of the kernel
>>> those are prone to change (and, at times, drastically) while the
>>> actual CONFIG_<name> option tends to be fairly static through time
>>> once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older
>>> IDE/ATA/ATAPI options vs newer PATA options).
>>
>>
>> But if you press "1" in the example above you will "jump" directly to
>> the menu item. Clue --> (1)
>
>
> And that is by far the HANDIEST tip from this thread... awesome! Thx Dan!
>

That.. really is the most useful thing I've learned in a fair while.

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy