Keeping the overview

Keeping the overview

[Axel Siebenwirth]

Hi,

i was just wondering what all you kernel developers do to keep an overview
over this mass of source code.
Are there any special tools or development GUIs for the kernel?

Best regards,
Axel Siebenwirth


P.S. Please cc me. I am not on the list.

Re: Keeping the overview

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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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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Re: Keeping the overview

[Alex Riesen]

Jan-Benedict Glaw, Mon, Apr 21, 2003 16:28:05 +0200:
> 
> > 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/ ).
> 

It's somewhat outdated, though (they're at 2.5.56 still).

Re: Keeping the overview

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Wed, 2003-04-23 09:29:48 +0200, Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM>
wrote in message <20030423072948.GD890@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com>:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw, Mon, Apr 21, 2003 16:28:05 +0200:
> > 
> > > 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/ ).
> 
> It's somewhat outdated, though (they're at 2.5.56 still).

You can have your own LXR. Keep that up-to-date;)

MfG, JBG

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   Jan-Benedict Glaw       jbglaw@lug-owl.de    . +49-172-7608481
   "Eine Freie Meinung in  einem Freien Kopf    | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg
    fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! |   im Irak!
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Re: Keeping the overview

[Guido Guenther]

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:28:05PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> ctags may help, as well as LXR (to grovide a hint for non-expert
> googlers: http://lxr.linux.no/ ).
cscope comes to mind too - especially since vim knows about it.
 -- Guido

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