Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 19:14:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? Message-ID: <klrpi2$thj$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <klohhu$fkk$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAHHBGkpU=azWoN=X9WNqzevncOCAkUhAwv3uWiWPEAzQ8FpYnA@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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