On 27/02/2014 20:32, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-02-27, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2014-02-27, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> make menuconfig >>> press "/" >>> type CONFIG_FHANDLE >>> press enter >>> profit!!! >>> >>> [Note the lack of ??? in the list] >>> >>> works like searching in vi or less >> >> The issue I occasionally have with that is that it only tells you the >> name of the CONFIG_ variable. It doesn't tell you what the menu entry >> is. > > Doh! I was wrong. It _does_ show it. It just doesn't show it where > I've been looking for it to be for the past 20 years: > > Symbol: E1000 [=n] > Type : tristate >>>> Prompt: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support > Location: > -> Device Drivers > -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) > -> Ethernet driver support (ETHERNET [=y]) > (2) -> Intel devices (NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y]) > Defined at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig:47 > Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] > && PCI [=y] > > The bottom level menu entry is shown at the _top_ rather than where I > always expected the bottom level to be shown (at the bottom): > > Symbol: E1000 [=n] > Type : tristate > Location: > -> Device Drivers > -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) > -> Ethernet driver support (ETHERNET [=y]) > (2) -> Intel devices (NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y]) >>>> -> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support > Defined at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig:47 > Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && ETHERNET [=y] && NET_VENDOR_INTEL [=y] > && PCI [=y] > > How embarassing...
Don't worry too much about it, you're in excellent company. Another 6 old timers had the same <doh> moment higher up in the thread :-) looks like we're all having a "mea culpa" day here in gentoo-land! -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
