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Subject: [gentoo-user] Peeve - finding kernel config options
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Hello all,

This is for those of use who to choose to roll our kernels by hand...

So, am I missing something?

Given the most recent gentoo news item:

>  # eselect news read 10
> 2014-02-25-udev-upgrade
>   Title                     Upgrade to >=sys-fs/udev-210
>   Author                    Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
>   Posted                    2014-02-25
>   Revision                  1
>
> The options CONFIG_FHANDLE and CONFIG_NET are now required in the kernel.

Whenever kernel config options are provided like this, it would be nice 
if time was taken to provide the path to where they are found.

I had to find the first one (CONFIG_FHANDLE) by:

1. grepping .config, seeing it wasn't enabled,
2. running make menuconfig and searching for 'FHANDLE',
3. seeing it is located in 'General setup',
4. scouring the General setup options, finding no 'FHANLDE' anywhere,
5. finding something in all lowercase named 'open by fhanlde syscalls',
6. enabling this option, saving the modified config,
7. confirming it is now enabled by grepping .config again

Sheesh. Really?

Would be nice if the news item had something like
CONFIG_FHANDLE (General setup > 'open by fhandle syscalls')
and
CONFIG_NET (still don't know which one this is??)

Wackadoo...