On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 2/27/2014 12:24 PM, Dan Johansson <d...@dmj.nu> 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_<name> 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 once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older 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. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
