Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net> writes:

> * Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> [151123 07:15]:
>> On Monday 23 November 2015 12:11:36 Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> > On Monday 23 November 2015 12:29:42 lee wrote:
>> > > Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
>> > > > Grepping .config proves nothing. If a requirement of the option is not
>> > > > set, the option may not appear in .config. The only reliable test is
>> > > > the
>> > > > search facility in make *config.
>> > > 
>> > > Search facility?
>> > > 
>> > > I only use menuconfig and often times, it's difficult to find a
>> > > particular option I'm looking for.
>> > 
>> > Touch the / key, then enter the option name minus the CONFIG_ prefix. Case
>> > is not sensitive.
>> 
>> I forgot to add that if more than one result is returned, they're numbered. 
>> Then if you hit the number key of the one you want, you go straight to it.
>
> And when you exit from reading that selection you get back to the
> results list.
>
> It's pretty slick and sure beats looking where I "think" it should be or
> grepping KConfig files.

Wow, that might save me a lot of time :)

And qdisc is extremely well hidden, I'd never have found that.  It
doesn't show up unless other options are enabled:  You have to know
exactly what you want to enable before even knowing that it's there.

How are we supposed to be able to configure a kernel when we can't even
see the available options anymore?