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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:30PM (#29776656)
> As someone who had to go rattling over the USB gadget subsystem, I can tell you that running "grep" with "find" was the standard way to find some data structure buried in a file included 8 layers deep.

As someone who tried poking around: Oh good; I assumed I was just missing something. Alternatively, oh no; I had assumed I was missing something and there was a more elegant tool out there.

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Re:“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kerne... by alexforencich on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:26AM (#29778550)
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source can be far more helpful than grep for this sort of thing
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