Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754389AbaDGPhE (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:37:04 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:50520 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751937AbaDGPhD (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:37:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:36:47 -0400 From: Neil Horman To: Gerhard Sittig 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: <20140407153647.GA17258@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> References: <1396530975.4361.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20140407104216.GB5287@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20140407124259.GZ11339@book.gsilab.sittig.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140407124259.GZ11339@book.gsilab.sittig.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:42:59PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > 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. > I would see no problem with an option to do that. I'd like to make it opt-in, so that people who want to know about symlink issues will still see them, but I'd be supportive of an option to quiet them Neil > > 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/