Kernel Modules Documentation?

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:57:26 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:07:13 -0400, illoai at gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >> > On 30 April 2013 09:39, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at 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 .
>
> Well, it's far from perfect but yes, I can put it somewhere for download.
> How would you like it? CSV? Spreadsheet, Text file?
>
>

Text file .

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk