Is there a way to build a cross reference with kernel file

[Dave Hylands]

Hi Jeff,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jeff Haran <jharan at bytemobile.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Javier Martinez Canillas [mailto:martinez.javier at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 6:04 PM
> > To: Jeff Haran
> > Cc: Alexandre Courbot; Jimmy Pan; Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> > Subject: Re: Is there a way to build a cross reference with kernel file
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Jeff Haran <jharan at bytemobile.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org
> > [mailto:kernelnewbies-
> > >> bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Courbot
> > >> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 7:05 PM
> > >> To: Jimmy Pan
> > >> Cc: Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> > >> Subject: Re: Is there a way to build a cross reference with kernel
> > > file
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Jimmy Pan <dspjm1 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> > It seems we can use ctags, while, I don't really know how to
> > > implement it.
> > >> > I don't want to use the online cross reference every time...
> > >>
> > >> I personally use KDevelop to navigate the kernel. It's not perfect yet
> > >> and a little bit tricky to configure correctly, but it's still pretty
> > >> efficient and I work on improving it. I wrote about it recently:
> > >> http://www.gnurou.org/code/kdevelop-kernel
> > >>
> > >> CTags is also known to work well, actually there is even a 'make tags'
> > >> target in the kernel's Makefile.
> > >>
> > >> Hope this helps,
> > >> Alex.
> > >
> ...
> > > Has anybody found a tool the solves this kind of problem well?
> > > Specifically, given a struct foo containing a field named bar, show me
> > > all of the code that references the bar field of struct foos but not
> the
> > > bar fields of other structures nor instances of variables that are
> > > themselves named bar.
>

It's not free, but I use Visual SlickEdit, and it is capable of doing what
you want.
www.slickedit.com

I tried what you suggested, and clicked on the cb field inside the sk_buff
struct and asked for all references to that. I checked through most of what
it returned and they all seemed to be valid.

-- 
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com
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