From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F53138F88 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62919E0AC9; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com (mail-we0-f176.google.com [74.125.82.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5515E0AB6 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 06:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id p61so2426467wes.21 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:04:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kASn6Idv4j1hzCVuX9hYwScSgWVbBY+bkvxX8/ta9cA=; b=oi4rmKAVcZ5ZV4HFck9aT8bEk7hAo03iuWciB3jbOyxclrZC3MEVndIkwvyES4iokT ZiaxS87DbOhjgWZKuUChKFXEuGYvh78GtLiK8cR1wnb5LDJUqDyBYq0N6hknyMgQNyHQ JmCT+NI2RSAPaH5yC/yZ+9saHLVQ6gHtrt2j2A849kgWj0DvqqpNn6+yjJJCZWC9di13 vAsLJ7VbvlrcbXc3KFgXYhL9R3yppVRrOpTBuP6YnLoMtQ8uuJA0uBku+bhVXkb9wETk 0+4unVEyxyj4ew+PmmSjgL8HQAj81UzrJpuNHeDCfgCzSOumYo0ctv5Z4pFAgaM+LfCG XDkg== X-Received: by 10.180.210.171 with SMTP id mv11mr11083289wic.44.1393481059062; Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.20.200] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ff9sm16808857wib.11.2014.02.26.22.04.17 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:04:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530ED551.5020200@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:04:01 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Peeve - finding kernel config options References: <530E4774.4070907@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <530E4774.4070907@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b4c172c3-e878-45a7-b22b-72409ae4c617 X-Archives-Hash: 669fa907c3167b06d11c0c9fa96eb237 On 26/02/2014 21:58, Tanstaafl wrote: > 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 >> 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. make menuconfig press "/" type CONFIG_FHANDLE press enter profit!!! [Note the lack of ??? in the list] works like searching in vi or less > > 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... > > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com