Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:07:12 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, walterhurry@gmail.com Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? Message-ID: <201304301407.r3UE7Csc028110@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <klohhu$fkk$1@ger.gmane.org>
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I have a list of about 220 kernel modules and would like to find out what they do, or are for (none has a man page). I suspect that many of them are drivers for particular devices. Is there any resource or documentation available? Thanks. P.S. Here are the first few: ahc_eisa ahc_isa ahc_pci alias_cuseeme See e.g. ahc(4). However, what I do is: makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="geom/geom_part acl_nfs4" in the kernel config file, or include whichever modules you use. This way you only build/install what you actually need. On some boxes I don't build any modules at all: makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="" Also, many drivers I build into the kernel, because I use them all the time, so the extra flexibility of modules is not required there. Anton
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