Am Montag, den 11.01.2010, 13:26 +0000 schrieb David Wooff:
> Hi,
> this may be a stupid question.  As I look around the kernel and driver
> source code I often find it difficult to find the "real" instance of a
> function.
> e.g. if I use grep to find occurrences of say "gpio_request", I get a
> long list to search through, but I know many of the files are not even
> compiled into my build.  Is there an easy way to find the real place
> where a function is coded for my particular build?
> This also applies to usage - say I want to find some example of the
> use "gpio_request" in my particular configuration so I can copy it to
> save time or even to know that it is even used in my configuration.
> Is there a quick and easy way to do this?

I think LXR may be what you are looking for. If you only want to look up
symbols in the official linux kernel source, you can use
http://lxr.linux.no. The link for LXR is there too.

-Erwin
 


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