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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel?
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:59:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E91A8CF.9090105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiB8jkqRJkAJmYZHSXku_a-4-QQSfFg22gPk2C8+ge9kbQ@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Michael Mol<mikemol@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Lavender<448463782@qq.com>  wrote:
>>> Yeah, your reply is exact what I mean , but I'm really confused by those
>>> modules' names, I can't find any contact between the hard device name and
>>> its module name . For example,  there is a module named 3c59x.ko , I totally
>>> don't know what device it present for ,
>> This got a *lot* easier back when sysfs was added.
>>
>> cd /sys/module/<modulename>/drivers/
>>
>> And go from there
>>
>> lspci will help you see the 'text' name for the device in question.
>>
>> For example, let's say I don't know what the 'ahci' module is for.
>>
>> $ cd /sys/module/ahci/drivers
>> $ ls
>> pci:ahci
>> $ cd pci\:ahci/
>> $ ls
>> 0000:00:11.0  bind  module  new_id  remove_id  uevent  unbind
>> $ sudo lspci|grep 11.0
>> 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA
>> Controller [AHCI mode]
>> $
>>
>> So now I know the ahci module manages my SATA controller.
> Came up with something possibly a little handier. This command should
> tell you what driver is associated with every device on the system.
>
> find /sys/devices -name driver -print0|xargs -0 ls -l|cut -d' '
> -f10-|sed -e 's/\.\.\///g'
>
> Output could probably still be a bit better cleaned up, but it should help.
>

Let's not fail to mention lspci -k either.  That is a handy tool.

Dale

:-)  :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-09 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09  4:53 [gentoo-user] Anyone can afford information about build kernel? Lavender
2011-10-09  5:55 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-10-09 13:30 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-09 13:40   ` Michael Mol
2011-10-09 13:59     ` Dale [this message]
2011-10-09 14:05       ` Michael Mol
2011-10-09 14:02     ` Dale
2011-10-09 14:09       ` Michael Mol
2011-10-09 15:05         ` Dale
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-09  9:49 Lavender
2011-10-09 16:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-10  8:26   ` Spidey
2011-10-10  9:03     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-09  0:55 Lavender
2011-10-09  1:19 ` Nick Khamis
2011-10-09  1:28   ` Dale
2011-10-09  1:39 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-10-09  6:21 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-09 13:56   ` Dale
2011-10-09 14:07 ` meino.cramer

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