How can I locate a struct's defination?
Hi,
I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create by
make tags
in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination, something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first result is:
struct rchan_buf
{
...
struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */
...
}There are so many items like this before I find
struct dentry
{
....
}How can I find the struct's defination directly?
Thanks.
Quoted 16 lines · Navy Cheng
Hi,
I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create bymake tags
in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination, something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first result is:
struct rchan_buf { ... struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */ ... }
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There are so many items like this before I find
struct dentry { .... }
Usually the definition has the curly brace on the same line, like this:
struct dentry {.
Just search for "{", it work in vim.
Daniel.
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Subject: How can I locate a struct's defination?Hi,
I use emacs and tags to read kernel source. The tags is create bymake tags
in the kernel source tree. When I want to find a struct's defination, something goes wrong. For example: when I find *dentry* , the first result is:
struct rchan_buf { ... struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */ ... }There are so many items like this before I find
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struct dentry { .... }How can I find the struct's defination directly?
Thanks.
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