Linux Kernel Patch: “make xconfig” Search Enhancement

Introduction

This is a patch to the Linux kernel that enhances the search dialog of “make xconfig”. According to the input of the kernel developers, it was done in a modular way by enhancing the kernel C configuration API.

Download

• take4-1 - Latest Version for kernel 3.5.x - applies and compiles cleanly on linux-3.5.x (and possibly above). Now it's maintained in a Git branch and passes checkpatch.pl, except for some warnings about declaring typedefs.
• take3-14 - Latest Version for kernel 3.2.0 - applies and compiles cleanly on linux-3.2.0 (and possibly above).
• take3-13 for kernel 3.0.4 - applies and compiles cleanly on linux-3.0.4 (and possibly above).
• take3-12 for kernels 2.6.37 and above - applies and compiles cleanly on linux-2.6.37 and above.
• take3-11 - applies and compiles cleanly on linux-2.6.27-rc2, some earlier kernels and probably later ones up to and including 2.6.27.

Licence

I hereby disclaim any explicit or implicit claims to copyrights of the GPLed code that I modified. I added some new files and they are under the X11 Licence.

Links

• Project Record on Freecode