Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:28:05 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Keeping the overview |
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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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