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DateMon, 21 Apr 2003 16:28:05 +0200
FromJan-Benedict Glaw <>
SubjectRe: Keeping the overview
On Mon, 2003-04-21 16:16:43 +0200, Axel Siebenwirth <axel@pearbough.net>
wrote in message <20030421141643.GA1054@neon.pearbough.net>:
> Hi,
> 
> i was just wondering what all you kernel developers do to keep an overview
> over this mass of source code.

Well, not everybody is interested in all code (but only in some
interesting fragment) so one knows that part. Others do need a full
overview over complete sources - these simply know the sources like
their spoken language's vocabulary. See - it's not looking at sources
for some weeks. It's looking at them for five or ten years.

> Are there any special tools or development GUIs for the kernel?

ctags may help, as well as LXR (to grovide a hint for non-expert
googlers: http://lxr.linux.no/ ).

MfG, JBG

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