Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755303AbaDGMnT (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 08:43:19 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:51517 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755281AbaDGMnH (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 08:43:07 -0400 X-Auth-Info: qynNwqG2RV5XUqpSuHsp70DDYgWYxsdT5HcLMTnEqtw= Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:42:59 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: Neil Horman Cc: Yann Droneaud , Hans-Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Br=F6ker?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman , cscope-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Anton Blanchard , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Hans-Bernhard Broeker Subject: Re: cscope: issue with symlinks in tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/ Message-ID: <20140407124259.GZ11339@book.gsilab.sittig.org> References: <1396530975.4361.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20140407104216.GB5287@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140407104216.GB5287@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Organization: DENX Software Engineering GmbH User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 06:42 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:16:15PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > cscope reports error when generating the cross-reference database: > > > > $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all O=./obj-cscope/ cscope > > GEN cscope > > cscope: cannot find > > file /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/copyuser_power7.S > > cscope: cannot find > > file /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_64.S > > cscope: cannot find > > file /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/memcpy_power7.S > > cscope: cannot find > > file /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/copyuser_64.S > > > > And when calling cscope from ./obj-cscope/ directory, it reports errors > > too. > > > > Hopefully it doesn't stop it from working, so I'm still able to use > > cscope to browse kernel sources. > > > No, it won't stop it from working, it just won't search those files. I don't > recall exactly the reason, but IIRC there was a big discussion long ago about > symlinks and our ability to support them (around version 1.94 I think). We > decided to not handle symlinks, as they would either point outside our search > tree, which we didn't want to include, or would point to another file in the > search tree, which made loading them pointless (as we would cover the search in > the pointed file). So there are valid reasons to not process those filesystem entries. Would it be useful to not emit the warnings then? Or to silent those warnings when the user knows it's perfectly legal to skip those filesytem entries? Like what you can do with the ctags(1) command and its --links option. virtually yours Gerhard Sittig -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr. 5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: office@denx.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/