From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: What all are the drivers those get compiled with the kernel?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:42:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170914054223.GA3448@caerus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEK-7JKK=jnZqf=SDrJf=GtLHyfqBOJF4ihjxiGW9NRBhoCuOg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 07:42:42PM -0700, Dipanjan Das wrote:
> There are numerous drivers present in the 'drivers' directory of Linux
> kernel. The kernel source for any Android mobile device [e.g.
> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-msm-2.6.35] is, too,
> not an exception. Definitely all the drivers are not relevant for the
> chipset which the mobile device is built on.
>
> It leads me to believe that *not* all the drivers which are present in the
> kernel source for a mobile device are built and shipped on commercial
> phones. Given the kernel source, how can one figure out what all are the
> drivers those get compiled for that particular mobile device?
One way you could go about this;
If you have a shell on the device you could run `lsmod` to list modules. Then, from within a
kernel source tree you can search for files matching the module name
find . -name 'FOO*'
Good luck,
Tobin.
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2017-09-12 2:42 What all are the drivers those get compiled with the kernel? Dipanjan Das
2017-09-14 5:42 ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]
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