Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751079AbVJ0P0o (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:26:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751084AbVJ0P0n (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:26:43 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:30187 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751079AbVJ0P0n (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:26:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:26:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: jonathan@jonmasters.org cc: Paul Albrecht , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: yet another c language cross-reference for linux In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590510270822q39db180fh530ce80bb9ec57ba@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <000501c5daf1$bbd37c60$e8c90443@oemcomputer> <35fb2e590510270822q39db180fh530ce80bb9ec57ba@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1515 Lines: 38 On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jon Masters wrote: > On 10/27/05, Paul Albrecht wrote: > > > I have written another cross-referencing tool for the c language because I > > have been dissatisfied with existing tools such as ctags and lxr. > > Ok. > > > I'd like to get some feedback to determine whether other programmers > > find the program useful > > It seems to be in its very early stages now. I can barely navigate the > 2.4.31 source and it doesn't offer anything like the functionality of > lxr. But if you want to, perhaps it's worthwhile developing it further > and releasing it. Maybe this is a meta-comment, but I would find it useful if xvr script (source) files contained (used) some indentation. I don't see any. > Your README file suggests that LXR fails because it requires a > webserver. Personally, I've never seen that to be an issue and find it > very very useful indeed (although it has limitations and doesn't > always index every symbol I would want to lookup), especially with > coywolf keeping an up-to-date lxr for 2.6. Mel Gorman used it for his > ULVMM book and I'm sure others are using LXR extensively - so it might > be worth extending that. > > I'd love it if vendors would actually index their kernels with LXR. -- ~Randy - 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/