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Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36

Posted by timothy on from the under-the-hood dept.

conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."

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  1. Slow by Tripp-phpBB · · Score: 1

    Hmm, slow loading but it does load but once it does I can not zoom or anything. Says connection to slow or site overloaded. Fail -_-

    1. Re:Slow by intellitech · · Score: 3, Funny

      Site overloaded? I wonder why that is.. :P

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    2. Re:Slow by froggymana · · Score: 1

      And to think, its barely even had the chance to be slashdotted!

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    3. Re:Slow by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think it's looking up data from one of those 2 billion column databases

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    4. Re:Slow by nomel · · Score: 2

      If my site ever started giving "overloaded" errors, "Fail" is the last thing I'd be thinking!

    5. Re:Slow by syousef · · Score: 2

      www.makelinux.net?

      They forgot the command line argument...
      make linux -slashdotted

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    6. Re:Slow by conan.sh · · Score: 1

      Now it works

  2. keyboard shortcut? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I like the keyboard instructions

    Keyboard:
    PgDn, PgUp,
    Dbl Click - zoom
    arrows - pan

    So, the keyboard shortcut for zoom is double click?

    1. Re:keyboard shortcut? by conan.sh · · Score: 1

      Thanks, fixed

  3. Software used to create this interactive map? by PatPending · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Color me impressed!
    I'm curious--is the software used to create this interactive map freely available? And if so can it be used on "any" C language project? (I'd like to try it out on the one I'm working with--about 770 .c and .h files.)

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    1. Re:Software used to create this interactive map? by conan.sh · · Score: 3, Informative

      Software used to create the map: vim, ctags, grep, inkscape

    2. Re:Software used to create this interactive map? by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Doxygen and Graphviz are tools that auto-generate graphs and graphics from source, you might want to check it out. A word of warning though: I've found code that doesn't have clear structure when it is in source form also doesn't have clear structure when it is drawn in diagrams.

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    3. Re:Software used to create this interactive map? by CrashandDie · · Score: 2

      Doxygen is generally broken for complex projects, or any project that uses macros intesively, or any project that uses define shields to limit the scope of what is available through specific interfaces.

      If I run the default config of Doxygen through the server I'm working on, I get maybe 20MB worth of doc, which is utterly imcomplete (it interprets macros as function definitions in classes, etc).

      If I deactivate the macro parsing, it includes _everything_, which means 30 redefinitions of the same classes/methods.

      In the end, I wrote a perl script that expanded some macros (list definitions inside of classes, getter/setters, etc), and Doxygen generated about 10GB worth of doc.

    4. Re:Software used to create this interactive map? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Thanks for proving the parent's point ;)

  4. Huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    it gives the illusion that the Linux kernel is organised

    1. Re:Huh by conan.sh · · Score: 1

      and hope :)