Re: association between device and module name

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

huh?
well, since all of my cards are pci so it was easy for me.
basicly I cat /proc/pci
and grep for "Ethernet controller" and did read line and yada yada yada
anyway I got the card/driver name with the irq number
and I go grep /proc/interrupts for the irq number
which will tell me which one is eth0 and which is eth1 and yada yada yada

it was pretty strange forward


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: association between device and module name


> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:
>
> > 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 }
>
> shell/perl won't work, due to the way that drivers report themselves into
> the kernel.. I have a box here that reports eth0 into /proc/ioports, and
> another box reporting the name of the module into /proc/ioports.. there's
> no way a shell script will capture all the possible cases, only the kernel
> interface will, from what I can see.
>
> >
> >
> > ----- 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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