Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? Message-ID: <CAOgwaMtDg=_52eeY=pDX8AVuEsgRHHY4_28qF0jrUjZ9O0yD6w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <klrpi2$thj$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <klohhu$fkk$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAHHBGkpU=azWoN=X9WNqzevncOCAkUhAwv3uWiWPEAzQ8FpYnA@mail.gmail.com> <klrpi2$thj$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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 . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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