How to get a list of all kernel modules

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:15:16AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <4674CE41.7000103 at gmx.de>
>             "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de> writes:
> : [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> : > M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : >> Greetings,
> : >>
> : >> is there an easy way to get a list of all the ports that compile
> : >> kernel modules?  I'd like to add them to my kernel build.  I did this
> : >> once before, but I lost all information on how to do it when I lost my
> : >> laptop's hard disk after the last bsdcan...
> : >>
> : >> Warner
> : > 
> : > # find /boot/ -type f -exec pkg_info -W \{} \;
> : 
> : Sorry about that, it takes very long. Better is:
> : 
> : # sh -c 'for mod in `pkg_info -qaL|grep -E "^/+boot"`; { pkg_info -W "$mod"; }
> 
> This sounds great, except for one problem.  This will tell me all the
> modules that I've installed that are from ports.  Since I've never
> installed any from ports, this will not work for what I want.  I want
> a list of all the ports in /usr/ports that install kernel modules.
> I'd even settle for a list of all the ports in /usr/ports that only
> install modules.
> 
> Something like
> 	egrep -l '\.ko$' /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist | sed -e s=/pkg-plist//
> might do the trick, but that blows the command line limits out of the
> water.  Replacing egrep with 'find' would need to be carefully
> constructed to avoid false positives in any work directories I have
> laying around.  I was hoping for something a little easier to do...

Keep in mind that not all ports have a 'pkg-plist' file.  Some ports list
that info directly in the Makefile.

I don't think there is any way of doing what you want without searching
through every single Makefile/pkg-plist file in the entire ports tree.



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Erik Trulsson
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