menu_next(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, we're in the kernel API manual and this page is menu_next(9) — yes it's a manpage, no it's not boring, stay with me 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

menu_next — returns the next menu entry, and it does it with depth-first traversal (iconic algorithm behaviour, honestly) 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct menu * menu_next (struct menu *menu , struct menu *root );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • menu — pointer to the current menu, like the one you're standing on right now 👑
  • root — the root of the sub-tree you want to traverse. and here's the lil plot twist: if you pass NULL for this one, the traversal just keeps going until it reaches the end of the entire menu tree 🌈

⭐ RETURN ⭐

the menu to visit next, or NULL when it reaches the end 🫶

fr fr, NULL here means "that's it, we're done, no more menus" — not an error, just the end of the line 💀

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

kernel file ./scripts/kconfig/menu.c, plus these besties:

and that's the whole page, no cap 💜 this lil gem lives in ./scripts/kconfig and it's dated October 2026 — periodt, go traverse some menus 🍓✨

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