Just a quick side note, because it doesn't seem that many people know about
it: you can use "make nconfig" instead of "make menuconfig".
It's another ncurses based interface, similar to menuconfig but different
enough to prefer one or the other.
Keep in mind that you can access the menu items with both the F1-F9 keys
and the 1-9 keys.

-- Emanuele Rusconi