Poison BL. wrote: > 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 once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older 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. >
Oh goody. Surely it can't be that easy tho. Don't we have to cross our toes first or something? That is one neato tip. < thumbs up > Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
