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 B2887138F88 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF94DE0B99; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90C1FE0B86 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id cc10so7698707wib.4 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:48:13 -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=SdXk6Ck3rjRg7yBJSNWZ7CMXMmrxNoij0OvGPTgrZb0=; b=nImRmX6sr2/NqE2Iqg3rLdkducmOZsh+jm9jGNEK7AC9DxcFVY6lcVqwHASVRcODQ7 VCaqp035ps1g38/k/ElV0EJib3Y0jzYbU+us+7GIOC2xn5uPDyN/Xbga9NznyTrHpwyV A8Kn6euwG2BFH9WpfCB2tm8dz+odaxq1n1xRqeKKA29uudOnoEaMc045rGpYKHfWNiT/ D4jaMDSiubRZ6b2T2vpr6I8H0iNJfftfvxaCYu83xFmsbgsc9uw/zrvi5haZUz1QlOrk g6h+0o8d5NHRg9dMwYNyNkWD1ENAN8y9Nhkt7uGnHYExbfCtQE2ZMfyLlKqy2hgoxxe9 oO7A== X-Received: by 10.194.63.228 with SMTP id j4mr9915973wjs.34.1393530493362; Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:48:13 -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 ux5sm13600521wjc.6.2014.02.27.11.48.12 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:48:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530F966C.2090402@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:47:56 +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] Re: Peeve - finding kernel config options References: <530E4774.4070907@libertytrek.org> <530ED551.5020200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 882d95c4-a07f-459f-92b6-0132a5ea93b6 X-Archives-Hash: b12dd14b59cf9313e494b01a9ba7eab5 On 27/02/2014 20:32, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-02-27, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2014-02-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> make menuconfig >>> press "/" >>> type CONFIG_FHANDLE >>> press enter >>> profit!!! >>> >>> [Note the lack of ??? in the list] >>> >>> works like searching in vi or less >> >> The issue I occasionally have with that is that it only tells you the >> name of the CONFIG_ variable. It doesn't tell you what the menu entry >> is. > > Doh! I was wrong. It _does_ show it. It just doesn't show it where > I've been looking for it to be for the past 20 years: > > Symbol: E1000 [=n] > Type : tristate >>>> Prompt: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support > Location: > -> Device Drivers > -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) > -> Ethernet driver support (ETHERNET [=y]) > (2) -> Intel devices (NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y]) > Defined at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig:47 > Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] && PCI [=y] > > The bottom level menu entry is shown at the _top_ rather than where I > always expected the bottom level to be shown (at the bottom): > > Symbol: E1000 [=n] > Type : tristate > Location: > -> Device Drivers > -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) > -> Ethernet driver support (ETHERNET [=y]) > (2) -> Intel devices (NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y]) >>>> -> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support > Defined at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig:47 > Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] && PCI [=y] > > How embarassing... Don't worry too much about it, you're in excellent company. Another 6 old timers had the same moment higher up in the thread :-) looks like we're all having a "mea culpa" day here in gentoo-land! -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com