How can I locate a struct's defination?
Hi, I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create by make tags in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination, something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first result is: struct rchan_buf { ... struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */ ... } There are so many items like this before I find struct dentry { .... } How can I find the struct's defination directly? Thanks.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Navy Cheng <navych@126.com> wrote:
Hi, I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create by
make tags
in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination, something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first result is:
struct rchan_buf { ... struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */ ... }
There are so many items like this before I find
struct dentry { .... }
Usually the definition has the curly brace on the same line, like this: struct dentry {. Just search for "{", it work in vim. Daniel.
-----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies- bounces@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Navy Cheng Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2015 10:01 PM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: How can I locate a struct's defination?
Hi, I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create by
make tags
in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination, something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first result is:
struct rchan_buf { ... struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */ ... }
There are so many items like this before I find
struct dentry { .... }
How can I find the struct's defination directly?
Thanks.
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