Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel Modules Documentation? Message-ID: <CAHHBGkpU=azWoN=X9WNqzevncOCAkUhAwv3uWiWPEAzQ8FpYnA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <klohhu$fkk$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <klohhu$fkk$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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). Good luck. -- --
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