Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: Kernel developers | Date | Sat, 19 Feb 2000 01:57:42 +0100 (MET) |
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feiliu wrote: > IMHO, http://lxr.linux.no/ does pretty much what you want.
No, because it doesn't know types. The kernel is full of foo->ops->bar() calls, and it's really a pain to unwind those calling sequences.
(Of course, LXR has a flat name space, so there are plenty of other things that it doesn't know either. Structs full of function pointers are just a particularly interesting example.)
Also, it doesn't have views. Example: try to find out how prio_dequeue at http://lxr.linux.no/source/net/sched/sch_prio.c?v=2.3.45#L108 may be called. Worse yet, find what gets called at http://lxr.linux.no/source/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c?v=2.3.45#L193 and where this is set. (Okay, this is a trick example - I'm not sure why it LXR didn't index queue_xmit).
LXR is certainly a nice tool, but it pretty far away from the thing I'm looking for.
- Werner
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