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 662BD138F88 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AB73E0B92; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4AA36E0B83 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id l18so3391871wgh.9 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:39:11 -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=WxDiXg29H69z20CGQ3QCmYKG2ARLlh8wY5+qM595jgo=; b=CXSJ9vw4fslaGNLAqVlXTGUjLLSXVRYpgrfPw4kPzU1x1d81qnGgI0DCF9DrM6dzLk xZIwV11YufsrlI1GojmQmyZHdR3F8Iy1o6I9Z8JJHP4RciLSsM8BC2dAvxDKnbi0eGJY KIZMBap12K8Uve7n2uouzx2LfNWe8BkKoyZ/7kp8Ttc/6ZNUnOcb67C19/IKTVI1Qri1 /n5QtyrmBLs9W6jpI9I/hV0sT1FdvzfB1JwS4G586+Qyax4DsgJiBFJQAcVrLT4Bb1Yz 6P19TkTyVr/CmBHwUxqKUZj94LTMlBWFKDWQzuQCh0m1qzQPwu68or3GXbRVg2BIr/+i KOig== X-Received: by 10.194.203.200 with SMTP id ks8mr4483354wjc.61.1393529950965; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-127-208.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id xt1sm13595863wjb.17.2014.02.27.11.39.09 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:39:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530F944E.4030501@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:38:54 +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> <530F74E2.7050401@dmj.nu> In-Reply-To: <530F74E2.7050401@dmj.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 16022d06-9357-4540-ac45-404542f8fc79 X-Archives-Hash: d812d887ddd348d1e85acce7655cfd2c On 27/02/2014 19:24, Dan Johansson wrote: >> 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_ 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) OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I've been rolling kernels happily by hand for 10 years+ Almost all that time I've had a question: "How can I easily just go straight to the option when I have it on the help screen?" Now I have a new burning question. Where is the closest geek-card recycling facility? because I obviously don't deserve the one in my wallet anymore -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com