Re: tags: include headers before source files

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 3.2.2010 17:25, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Currently looking up a structure definition in TAGS / tags takes one to 
> one of multiple "static struct X" definitions in arch sources, which makes 
> it for many structs practically impossible to get to the required header. 
> This patch changes the order of sources being tagged to first scan 
> architecture includes, then the top-level include/ directory, and only 
> then the rest. It also takes into account, that many architectures have 
> more than one include directory, i.e., not only arch/$ARCH/include, but 
> also arch/$ARCH/mach-X/include etc.

Hi Guennadi

This is a cool idea, but there is one issue:


>  # find sources in arch/$1/include
>  find_arch_include_sources()
>  {
> -	find ${tree}arch/$1/include $ignore -name "$2" -print;
> +	include=$(find ${tree}arch/$1/ -name include -type d);
> +	archincludedir+=$include
> +	find $include $ignore -name "$2" -print;

You need to check if $include isn't empty, which it is on i386 or x86_64
(and on other archs where $ARCH != $SRCARCH). If I do a 'make cscope'
after your change, the second find statement crawls the whole filesystem.

Michal