From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 2 03:33:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B752EA4A for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 03:33:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f180.google.com (mail-vc0-f180.google.com [209.85.220.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A6FE11FD for ; Thu, 2 May 2013 03:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f180.google.com with SMTP id hv10so125780vcb.39 for ; Wed, 01 May 2013 20:33:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=gNNkIdYnzg0lxYJ93VbxicIoKZ5J8a1ZQ3PuDbrqf8M=; b=iJE9dxpFhZSIm3cqGhsH2wsInW1wafCj5h86c848ah7SOlmq8TrFnJwa2fOsVM4M8W y9tlO8HoWM+b36M5ENaA10HS+xBH4gZobCdiycxf1mqfVz+ZXcqR0KRTHcgEYNi8VLqA 4BroUGRnh0ZON1jWMwQx5GWN0ZZW2oY8t1DzRvZtUKqLooowGF29gVj3vwSoQgh98J+2 A91sYTNumMuP+6teYgOM3hwbMXDX3sKn67wP8jibyNXMCQE873x7RKb3LdjVFaGEOHP6 VkaKek5zq3dDgHAXtrpMHSGbrDXr9I+45ChTWEhozHVzNpDGBpGlUO5QqLXeJi3oNWlP /jiA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.210.162 with SMTP id mv2mr1639806vec.11.1367465601334; Wed, 01 May 2013 20:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.66.165 with HTTP; Wed, 1 May 2013 20:33:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 20:33:21 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Walter Hurry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 03:33:27 -0000 On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Walter Hurry 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 > > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> > On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry 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