Re: Kernel developers

From: feiliu (afei@jhu.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 13:40:58 EST


IMHO, http://lxr.linux.no/ does pretty much what you want.

> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:17:33 +0100
> From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
> Subject: Re: Kernel developers
> To: Petko Manolov <petkan@spct.net>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
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> Petko Manolov wrote:
> > Looks good for code browsing. There is something similar at:
> >
> > http://lxr.linux.no/
>
> BTW, it would be a quite worthwhile project for somebody with a bit
> of spare time at their hands to write such a browser that:
>
> - is fast
> - knows about types and how to follow function pointers
> (e.g. that can trace foo->send() to the right set of "send"s)
> - allows navigation in views (e.g. "show all callers of xyzzy",
> then walk over the list of callers to pick the right one)
> - has some concept of additional attributes, e.g. "may sleep",
> "grabs a lock", etc.
> - can look inside macros
>
> The navigation should be a bit like with mutt, when you go by arrival
> (o u) to check recent stuff, then jump to threads (o t), and finally
> end up checking if the author of a particular message has said more
> interesting things in the past (o f).
>
> - Werner (no, I don't have the time ;-)
>
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