Add an option to a Child theme of Twenty Eleven

This thread suggests that this isn’t necessarily an intended Child Theme usecase so theme-options.php isn’t explicitly overrideable. It indicates that you should rather be adding extra options using add_settings_field and the admin_init hook.

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