CONFIG_* symbols status

2009-03-21 Thread Pawel K
Hello How can I get the values of CONFIG_* symbols. Unfortunately the .config file contains mainly symbols that have been configured. thank you for help

"make TAGS" according to ".config" file

2009-03-08 Thread Pawel K
Hello Is it possible to generate the tags file that takes into account the kernel's .config file. I mean something similar to "make TAGS" but generating only symbols that are under appropriate #ifdef's as defined in .config file. thank you for an answer

browsable mail archives

2009-01-30 Thread Pawel K
Hello Where can I find the complete browsable archives of this list. Unfortunately the archives at: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ does not allow searching all of them at once since they are grouped by months. The archives at: http://marc.info/?l=kernelnewbies&r=1&w=2 are not complete.

very simple root fs

2007-10-12 Thread Pawel K
Hello I have 3 questions: 1. Do You know any documents/sites where I can find the instructions of how to build the very simple root fs ? 2. Do You know any very simple root filesystems that work well with User Mode Linux ? 2. Is there any flag or make parameter or anything else to build the ker

header files hierarchy

2007-09-16 Thread Pawel K
Hello What is the best way to retrieve the header file in which the specific macro has been defined ? For example the line mm/page_alloc.c:1210 contains the following code: struct page * fastcall __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist) The "f

emacs xcscope.el slow with linux kernel

2007-09-08 Thread Pawel K
Hello When I use cscope outside of emacs with latest linux kernel it works very quickly. It finds "global definition:__free_pages_ok " and "functions calling a function:__free_pages_ok " in less than 0.1 sec. The above operations take about 2 sec when using xcscope.el. 1. Can I force xcscope.el

Re: browsing kernel source with emacs

2007-09-08 Thread Pawel K
> Are you generating the tags every time you search > for it? I don't think so since generating cscope database takes about a minute on my machine while I wait about 10 secs for a tags list. Pawel Be a b

browsing kernel source with emacs

2007-09-01 Thread Pawel K
Hello How can I force emacs to show the list of tags to jump to in case there are more than one symbol of a specific name. I tried the following tools but they don't work good enough for me: 1. exuberant-ctags and etags with conjunction with etags-select. It works very slow. It would take more th