Re: SysFS, module names and .name

iSteve
2005-09-02T22:18:14Z

Yes, I am rather interested -- could you please provide details about
this method?

Thanks in advance.

- iSteve

Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:28:56PM +0200, iSteve wrote:
>
>>Greetings,
>>in sysfs, /sys/bus/*/drivers lists the driver names, with their exported
>>.name (eg. '.name = "EMU10K1_Audigy"' in the module code, from now on
>>'driver name'). In /sys/modules, the kernel modules are listed with
>>their module name, eg. snd_emu10k1. However, it seems to me that in
>>sysfs, there is no way in particular to tell, which module has which
>>.name. That is, that snd_emu10k1 is EMU10K1_Audigy and vice versa.
>>
>>I wonder whether it wouldn't be possible to add a symlink to the
>>particular module from the driver, and/or from the module to the driver,
>>so the list of devices handled by the module and the module name would
>>be accessible. This way, I would know which driver name corresponds to
>>which module name and vice versa.
>
>
> It's already automatically created for some bus drivers (like USB). I
> had a simple patch to enable this for PCI, but haven't gotten around to
> changing every single pci driver to enable it. If you want to do so,
> it isn't tough at all.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h