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

[Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>]

On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson <dan@dmj.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 once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older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!