Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 23:21:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? Message-ID: <kls82g$g3s$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <klohhu$fkk$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAHHBGkpU=azWoN=X9WNqzevncOCAkUhAwv3uWiWPEAzQ8FpYnA@mail.gmail.com> <klrpi2$thj$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAOgwaMtDg=_52eeY=pDX8AVuEsgRHHY4_28qF0jrUjZ9O0yD6w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> FreeBSD 9.1 on amd64. >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> > Yes, the modules names aren't always exactly the man page name. >> > Stubborn & inventive use of apropos & locate (& reading through stuff >> > in /usr/src/sys/modules/ ) can help, but not everything is obvious. >> > >> > ahc(4) covers the first few. >> > >> > libalias(3) appears to be the only thing to even parenthetically >> > mentions cuseeme (NB I didn't run grep over the whole dang >> > filesystem, though). >> > >> > Most of the if_something are under something(4). >> > >> > For the geom_blahblah, see if it's covered by something mentioned in >> > the SEE ALSO sexion of geom(8) or geom(4). >> >> Thanks to all for the pointers. With a little digging around, I have >> managed to reduce the 220 to zero, and now have all 643 (9.1 on amd64) >> briefly documented. >> >> >> > > If there is a list of them , > is it possible to post that list to share it ? > > I think , it will be very useful as a reference . Well, it's far from perfect but yes, I can put it somewhere for download. How would you like it? CSV? Spreadsheet, Text file?
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