> >> 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?
>
> I use to look for it in the object files:
>
>       find . -name "*.o" -o -name "*.ko" \
>           | xargs nm -o 2> /dev/null | grep -w <function-or-variable>
>
> Same for error messages: use "strings -f" on object files,
> instead of looking in the sources.
Many thanks - this is probably what I'm really looking for.  Again sorry
for footer (still working on it)
Dave W.


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