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 once it exists (even when superseded by new toys, i.e. older 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, -- Dan Johansson *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
