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 09F19138F88 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:41:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FBA0E0B9F; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:41:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f171.google.com (mail-yk0-f171.google.com [209.85.160.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8CCFAE0B83 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:41:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yk0-f171.google.com with SMTP id q9so7884483ykb.2 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:41:46 -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=wRY5OfuUb7Ox8au4wih9LI5iP3bGCbl9f9TFwQsd0Mg=; b=zLDcuQfj57AvWgGVfUsaFjt3ZnYaITRO/1luaku9mGcmO/VrWqWsE/Ed2qGYIxmV4/ 9EbRHS4zYqimCD8X3JEBbf8SpyxXHyAAj0BtQC2Pij41RuezLYN7GDqhHuQvlEin+byT SFTUEtYjtAGmQThU/UCN/om30GRtan8QomGQxK3adIO02VhKOWYPK0/IIvXOoiFK+p2W R5444+SbnOScmmGDCJ2jaQdHGqidZ2MF31AgWAF2X482mlokUHPn/6W2FkrTGjCI46iy 4Iog8GUo3f5K6n4hD3kpI8o6VCNN2LYYClpAPeGgu2s0UpV+7LU9YVdFKIkz0wUcwDZr Z/ew== X-Received: by 10.236.189.202 with SMTP id c50mr1882823yhn.139.1393530106601; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:41:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-123-85.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.123.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id n21sm16756744yhm.1.2014.02.27.11.41.45 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:41:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530F94F8.2060902@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:41:44 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 SeaMonkey/2.24 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> <530F7736.6050105@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: d8129350-798a-4e9c-9a89-395074ad86b8 X-Archives-Hash: 6ab4f64380427d90830673c0334b1045 Poison BL. wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson 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_ 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! >> > That.. really is the most useful thing I've learned in a fair while. > Oh goody. Surely it can't be that easy tho. Don't we have to cross our toes first or something? That is one neato tip. < thumbs up > Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!