On 23/10/06, Alan Menegotto <macnish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. Anyone know a tool to easily document the codepath for a single operation in kernel mode (i.e. TCP 3-way handshake)?
Probably not exactely what you are looking for, but if you run "make tags" in your kernel source dir, then you'll have an index that lets you follow "tags" easily in many editors. What this means is that if you place the cursor on a function name you can jump to the definition with a keypress and back again with another (even when the definition is in a different file). For example, in 'vi' you can use these : :ta tag Find a tag. Ctrl-] Find the tag under the cursor. Ctrl-T Return to previous location before jump to tag Many other editors can be used as well in similar ways. This makes it a bit easier to navigate the source. You can also use "make cscope" to generate a cscope index (http://cscope.sourceforge.net/) In addition, you also have the kerneldoc documentation which you can get at by running "make mandocs", "make xmldocs", "make pdfdocs" etc... see "make help" for more. Hope that helps you a bit. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
