On 26/02/2014 21:58, Tanstaafl 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.
make menuconfig press "/" type CONFIG_FHANDLE press enter profit!!! [Note the lack of ??? in the list] works like searching in vi or less > > 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... > > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
