Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] tools: add tags and cscope index file generation support

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 03:18:52PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2017-01-17 14:11, Jerin Jacob:
> > This script generates cscope, gtags, and tags
> > index files based on EAL environment.
> > (architecture and OS(linux/bsd))
> > 
> > Selection of the architecture and OS environment
> > is based on dpdk configuration target(T=)
> 
> What is the purpose of selecting a configuration?
> Is it to go quicker in the implementation you are interested in?

Yes. That is the hard part to do.

> In that case, I think we need a catch-all option, because I like
> being prompted by vim that several implementations exist and I can
> choose one of them.

OK. Then we can make T= as optional and if T= is not specified then script can
take all the source files. Thoughts?

> 
> > example usage:
> > make tags T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> > make cscope T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> > make gtags T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> [...]
> >  .gitignore        |   8 ++
> >  devtools/tags.sh  | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  mk/rte.sdkroot.mk |   4 +
> >  3 files changed, 263 insertions(+)
> 
> I think build-tags.sh would be a better name.

OK

> 
> On the implementation, I have few comments:
> 	- is there a way to re-use the skip list when including the related files?
> 	- you can remove tile from this patch

OK

> And for the details:
> 	- why a bash shebang where /bin/sh would be wider?

I will change to /bin/sh

> 	- verbose option should be -v (with getopts)

OK

> 	- please use $() instead of backquotes

OK

> 	- please avoid one-line functions used only once like doctags

OK

> 
> I can help you with this script if needed.

OK. I can work on this next week, if you have time then feel free to
take up this.

>