From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 1 23:22:18 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD38469C for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 23:22:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBE818B2 for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 23:22:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UXgLn-00085G-8I for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 01:22:15 +0200 Received: from cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.21.186.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2013 01:22:15 +0200 Received: from walterhurry by cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2013 01:22:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Hurry Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 23:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-walt15-2-0-cust148.13-2.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) 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: Wed, 01 May 2013 23:22:18 -0000 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?