Re: config help

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On 10/29/10 18:24, Yihe Chen wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:01:55 +0800 Yihe Chen wrote:
>>
>>> Where to find information or helping stuff or usage info on those config
>>> tools, like conf/gconf etc.
>>
>>
>> Begin with the README file in the top-level directory of the linux
>> source tree.
>>
>> For menuconfig:  use ?
>>
>> For nconfig (in recent kernels):  use 1 or <F1>
>>
>> For gconfig:  click on Help
>>
>> For xconfig:  click on Help
>>
>> There is also some help info in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt .
>>
> /
> First, thanks for your reply. I'm reanding scripts/kconfig/Makfile, and
> tacking
> notice of some options used with conf tool, like -r -y -n -m -d and -D.

What kernel version are you looking at?  Something before 2.6.36 ?
I ask that because in 2.6.36 and later, the config command line tool only
uses long option strings (like --oldconfig), not short option strings
(like -o).

Anyway, in 2.6.35, scripts/kconfig/Makefile is fairly clear on those
short option strings:

-o	oldconfig
-s	silentoldconfig
-r	randconfig
-y	allyesconfig
-n	allnoconfig
-m	allmodconfig
-d	defconfig
-D filename	use filename as default configuration

> Now I havn't a clear understanding on those meaning. I want to look some
> text notice
> about this. Though I could find info from scripts/kconfig/conf.c, I
> don't want to
> befoul my fingers by the fucking code currently.


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