Re: SysFS, module names and .name

[iSteve <isteve@rulez.cz>]

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