On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> > On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@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? > > Text file . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
