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 -- Regards, Mick
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