Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:11:44PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It is really annoying when I use emacs TAGS to search for something
> like "dev_name" and have to go through 12 iterations before I find the
> function "dev_name". I really do not care about structures that include
> "dev_name" as one of its fields, and I'm sure pretty much all other
> developers do not care either.
> 
> There's a "remove_structs" variable used by the scripts/tags.sh, which
> I'm guessing is suppose to remove these structures from the TAGS file,
> but it must do a poor job at it, as I'm always hitting structures when
> I want the actual declaration.
> 
> Luckily, the etags program comes with an option "--no-members", which does
> exactly what I want, and I'm sure all other kernel developers want too.
> 
> Create a new "no_members" variable and assign it to "--no-members" for the
> "TAGS" case and pass that to the etags program to remove structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20131115093645.6dc03918@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> - Use a no_members variable instead of hard coding the --no-members into
>   the etags call, as that can break some "tags" cases. (Michal Marek)

Yeah, I often use member tags.

The tags file have a 'kind' field, what you want is for emacs to order
on kind and prefer 'f' over 'm'.

The alternative is switching to use emacs-lsp, that way the editor knows
the kind of symbol you want. If you're on a function call, it should
only consider 'f' tags. Whereas if the cursor is on a member deref, it
should only consider 'm'.