Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> writes: > * Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> [151123 07:15]: >> On Monday 23 November 2015 12:11:36 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Monday 23 November 2015 12:29:42 lee wrote: >> > > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: >> > > > Grepping .config proves nothing. If a requirement of the option is not >> > > > set, the option may not appear in .config. The only reliable test is >> > > > the >> > > > search facility in make *config. >> > > >> > > Search facility? >> > > >> > > I only use menuconfig and often times, it's difficult to find a >> > > particular option I'm looking for. >> > >> > Touch the / key, then enter the option name minus the CONFIG_ prefix. Case >> > is not sensitive. >> >> I forgot to add that if more than one result is returned, they're numbered. >> Then if you hit the number key of the one you want, you go straight to it. > > And when you exit from reading that selection you get back to the > results list. > > It's pretty slick and sure beats looking where I "think" it should be or > grepping KConfig files.
Wow, that might save me a lot of time :) And qdisc is extremely well hidden, I'd never have found that. It doesn't show up unless other options are enabled: You have to know exactly what you want to enable before even knowing that it's there. How are we supposed to be able to configure a kernel when we can't even see the available options anymore?
