On 27/02/14 19:24, Dan Johansson wrote: > On 26.02.2014 22:24, Poison BL. wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> This is for those of use who to choose to roll our kernels by hand... >>> >>> So, am I missing something? >>> >>> Given the most recent gentoo news item: >>> >>>> # eselect news read 10 >>>> 2014-02-25-udev-upgrade >>>> Title Upgrade to >=sys-fs/udev-210 >>>> Author Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> >>>> Posted 2014-02-25 >>>> Revision 1 >>>> >>>> The options CONFIG_FHANDLE and CONFIG_NET are now required in the kernel. >>> >>> Whenever kernel config options are provided like this, it would be nice if >>> time was taken to provide the path to where they are found. >>> >>> I had to find the first one (CONFIG_FHANDLE) by: >>> >>> 1. grepping .config, seeing it wasn't enabled, >>> 2. running make menuconfig and searching for 'FHANDLE', >>> 3. seeing it is located in 'General setup', >>> 4. scouring the General setup options, finding no 'FHANLDE' anywhere, >>> 5. finding something in all lowercase named 'open by fhanlde syscalls', >>> 6. enabling this option, saving the modified config, >>> 7. confirming it is now enabled by grepping .config again >>> >>> Sheesh. Really? >>> >>> Would be nice if the news item had something like >>> CONFIG_FHANDLE (General setup > 'open by fhandle syscalls') >>> and >>> CONFIG_NET (still don't know which one this is??) >>> >>> Wackadoo... >>> >> 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) > > Regards,
Seriously, I've known / for years and have had no issues finding anything myself, but this small information is still news to me. Nice one. - Samuli
