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

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

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?
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.

> 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.

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
And for the details:
	- why a bash shebang where /bin/sh would be wider?
	- verbose option should be -v (with getopts)
	- please use $() instead of backquotes
	- please avoid one-line functions used only once like doctags

I can help you with this script if needed.