From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] kernel .config help pages
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:51:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703211852.09133.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321094134.GG26259@jaquet.dk>
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On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:41, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:23:40PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a quick way to access the help page of a singular module in the
> > kernel .config list, without having to fire up make menuconfig?
> >
> > Something on the CLI to access just one particular help page.
>
> I dont think there is a dedicated CLI tools for this, but the Kconfig
> files in the kernel directory contains the help text. So if you know the
> name of the config option is question (or its placement in the directory
> hierarcy) you can grep -r for it and read/grep/parse the Kconfig file in
> question.
Thank you Rasmus, that's what I was after. Using less on the relevant Kconfig
file shows me all the help files in a row for the particular module e.g.
less /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
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Regards,
Mick
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2007-03-20 18:23 [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] kernel .config help pages Mick
2007-03-21 9:41 ` Rasmus Andersen
2007-03-21 18:51 ` Mick [this message]
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