Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members'

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 06:29:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:11:44PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > 
> > It is really annoying when I use emacs TAGS to search for something
> > like "dev_name" and have to go through 12 iterations before I find the
> > function "dev_name". I really do not care about structures that include
> > "dev_name" as one of its fields, and I'm sure pretty much all other
> > developers do not care either.
> > 
> > There's a "remove_structs" variable used by the scripts/tags.sh, which
> > I'm guessing is suppose to remove these structures from the TAGS file,
> > but it must do a poor job at it, as I'm always hitting structures when
> > I want the actual declaration.
> > 
> > Luckily, the etags program comes with an option "--no-members", which does
> > exactly what I want, and I'm sure all other kernel developers want too.
> > 
> > Create a new "no_members" variable and assign it to "--no-members" for the
> > "TAGS" case and pass that to the etags program to remove structures.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20131115093645.6dc03918@gandalf.local.home/
> > 
> > - Use a no_members variable instead of hard coding the --no-members into
> >   the etags call, as that can break some "tags" cases. (Michal Marek)
> 
> Yeah, I often use member tags.
> 
> The tags file have a 'kind' field, what you want is for emacs to order
> on kind and prefer 'f' over 'm'.
> 
> The alternative is switching to use emacs-lsp, that way the editor knows
> the kind of symbol you want. If you're on a function call, it should
> only consider 'f' tags. Whereas if the cursor is on a member deref, it
> should only consider 'm'.

That said, setting up clangd on the kernel tree is rather more painful
that I'd like it to be :-(