Yes
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27/02/2013 12:52, shawn wilson wrote:
>> I still haven't found a solution
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:24:29 -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> The wiki page says to use / to search for each option in make menuconfig.
>>> That shows the option and its dependencies, for example /USER_NS here
>>> gives
>>>
>>> Depends on: NAMESPACES [=y] && EXPERIMENTAL [=y] && UIDGID_CONVERTED [=n]
>>>
>>> So the option won't show up here because I haven't enabled
>>> UIDGID_CONVERTED.
>>>
>>
>> I forgot about the internal menuconfig search feature. After googling
>> UIDGID_CONVERTED I found this:
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7215718.html
>>
>> Apparently, I'm not the only one with this issue.
>>
>> So, I searched for UIDGID_CONVERTED in menuconfig and only see it as a
>> bool and no dependency. However, if I:
>> echo "CONFIG_UIDGID_CONVERTED=y" >> .config
>> and then make menuconfig, this goes away as well - so I'm guessing
>> this has dependencies I haven't found. Though, I grep that option in
>> the kernel source tree and I only see two things that are documented
>> as "depends on" it and the listing for the option - I see nothing that
>> uses it.
>>
>
> Are you aware that menuconfig has a search option?
>
> press "/" just like vi or less, enter "USER_NS" and get:
>
>
> │ Symbol: USER_NS [=n] │
> │ Type : boolean │
> │ Prompt: User namespace (EXPERIMENTAL) │
> │ Defined at init/Kconfig:888 │
> │ Depends on: NAMESPACES [=y] && EXPERIMENTAL [=y] && UIDGID_CON│
> │ Location: │
> │ -> General setup │
> │ -> Namespaces support (NAMESPACES [=y]) │
> │ Selects: UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS [=n] │
>
>
> Saves mucking about with all that tedious and unreliable greping
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckin...@gmail.com
>
>
