On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 12:26 PM Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's common for drivers that share same physical components to also > duplicate source code (or at least portions of it). A good example is > both drivers/gpu/drm/amdgpu/* and drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/* have a header > file called atombios.h. > > While their contents aren't the same, a lot of their structs have > the exact same names which makes navigating through the code base a bit > messy as cscope will show up 'references' across drivers which aren't > exactly correct. > > Add IGNORE_DIRS variable, which specifies which directories > to be ignored from indexing. > > Example: > make ARCH=x86 IGNORE_DIRS="drivers/gpu/drm/radeon tools" cscope > > Signed-off-by: Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changelog: > > - v3: change commit message wording and rst syntax (Req Bagas Sanjaya) > change makefile variable scope to global, use blank space > separator and change variable name to IGNORE_DIRS. > (Req: Vipin Sharma) > - v2: change approach to include everything unless specified by the > IGNOREDIRS variable: (Req: Vipin Sharma) > - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5OKDvbGk4Kro6MK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > --- > Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 7 +++++++ > scripts/tags.sh | 7 +++++++ > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst > index 08f575e6236c..5202186728b4 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst > @@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ To get all available archs you can also specify all. E.g.:: > > $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all tags > > +IGNORE_DIRS > +----------- > +For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can choose which directories won't > +be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.:: > + > + $ make IGNORE_DIRS="drivers/gpu/drm/radeon tools" cscope > + > KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP > ---------------------- > Setting this to a date string overrides the timestamp used in the > diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh > index e137cf15aae9..1ad45f17179a 100755 > --- a/scripts/tags.sh > +++ b/scripts/tags.sh > @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ ignore="$(echo "$RCS_FIND_IGNORE" | sed 's|\\||g' )" > # tags and cscope files should also ignore MODVERSION *.mod.c files > ignore="$ignore ( -name *.mod.c ) -prune -o" > > +# ignore arbitrary directories > +if [ -n "${IGNORE_DIRS}" ]; then > + for i in ${IGNORE_DIRS}; do > + ignore="${ignore} ( -path $i ) -prune -o" > + done > +fi > + > # Use make KBUILD_ABS_SRCTREE=1 {tags|cscope} > # to force full paths for a non-O= build > if [ "${srctree}" = "." -o -z "${srctree}" ]; then > -- > 2.38.1 > Thanks for the patch. Reviewed-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@xxxxxxxxxx>