VSCode Search: Exclude & Except

❯ ls
arch           include   mm        tools                  Kbuild                   modules.order
block          init      net       usr                    Kconfig                  README
certs          io_uring  rust      virt                   MAINTAINERS              System.map
crypto         ipc       samples   built-in.a             Makefile                 vmlinux
Documentation  kernel    scripts   compile_commands.json  Module.symvers           vmlinux.a
drivers        lib       security  COPYING                modules.builtin          vmlinux.o
fs             LICENSES  sound     CREDITS                modules.builtin.modinfo

I want to find all code that includes start_kernel. In VSCode, I can do this.

 

I don’t want to see the code of architecture other than RISC-V, so I can exclude them.

exclude:
	arch/[^r]*

This line means to exclude all files in the arch folder, except the one that starts with the letter ‘r’.

Notice that I still want to see all code including start_kernel out of the arch folder.

 

Or, I can use include to specify multiple architectures specifically.

include:
	./[^a]*/**, ./arch/riscv/**

./[^a]*/** includes all files except those in the folder starting with the letter ‘a’. The only folder that starts with ‘a’ is arch. So it means to include all files except those in the arch folder.