Re: association between device and module name

["roylo" <roylo@example.com>]

I was thinking about the same thing when I answered his question.
so I wrote a shell script for it afterwards. :P

Anyway, I guess most of the *nix SA will do the same (ie either write a perl
or shell script for anything we need)
after all, *nix SA are smarter and can do things like that ourself. So I
guess that is why no one asked for it.

{I'm not saying M$ windoz SA are dumber; however, I do look down on them
from time to time  :P }


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
To: "Tokyo Linux Users' Group" <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: association between device and module name


>
> Well in my quest to find an association between "eth0" and "3c59x", for
> example, I found that:
>
> struct netdevice {}
>
> contains an "owner" field which contains the name of the module.  problem
> is, this sturcture and associated functions are local to kernel space.
>
> So i guess I'll have to write a kernel module which goes through each
> netdevice with a get_dev_by_index or what have you, and creates a /proc
> file with entries like:
>
> 1:eth0:3c59x
>
> ie, ifIndex:ifDevName:ifModName
>
> looks do-able.  I'm just surprised nobody's ever seen the need for this
> before.
>
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