* Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] kernel .config help pages
@ 2007-03-21 18:51 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2007-03-21 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:41, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:23:40PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a quick way to access the help page of a singular module in the
> > kernel .config list, without having to fire up make menuconfig?
> >
> > Something on the CLI to access just one particular help page.
>
> I dont think there is a dedicated CLI tools for this, but the Kconfig
> files in the kernel directory contains the help text. So if you know the
> name of the config option is question (or its placement in the directory
> hierarcy) you can grep -r for it and read/grep/parse the Kconfig file in
> question.
Thank you Rasmus, that's what I was after. Using less on the relevant Kconfig
file shows me all the help files in a row for the particular module e.g.
less /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
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Regards,
Mick
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