From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Leon Gross <leon.gross@rub.de>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: List of all available kernel modules per version
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:38:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YUy7hecA+eAxrAxD@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e8d1582-f01e-65da-ffce-70ce0d43a98b@rub.de>
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:32:40PM +0200, Leon Gross wrote:
> The first thing I am interested in a complete list of all kernel modules of
> the x86 plattform for any kernel version.
Which x86 platform? There are many different ones.
> The problem I want to solve is a generalized way to find out the kernel
> versions in which modules first were supported.
But how are you mapping a module "name" to what it does?
Why does that matter?
> One exmaple is the `nvme_tcp` module. Trough testing on machines running
> different kernels and stackoverflow articles
> I figured out that it might have been supported since kernel version 5.x. I
> would like to have a way to verfiy such kind of
> information for any given module.
Do a 'make allmodconfig' build for every major release and sort the
output. Should be pretty easy to script if you really need this.
Good luck!
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-23 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-23 16:39 List of all available kernel modules per version Leon Gross
2021-09-23 16:57 ` Greg KH
2021-09-23 17:32 ` Leon Gross
2021-09-23 17:38 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-09-23 17:55 ` Leon Gross
2021-09-23 18:12 ` Greg KH
2021-09-23 22:04 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-09-25 0:08 ` jim.cromie
2021-09-25 3:32 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-09-25 3:35 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2021-09-26 18:00 ` jim.cromie
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