Re: how to find out which module was built by which .config variables?

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>Hello,
>
>I need to create a database with configuration options (the ones 
>in .config) and the resulting kernel modules.
>
Let's pick 8139too.ko for example.
Find /usr/src/linux -name 8139too.ko
In that same directory, look at the Makefile:
obj-$(CONFIG_8139TOO) += 8139too.o

>Is there any simple possibility (with bash and its applications) to find 
>out, which kernel modules will be built by which .config options? I know 
>that there are also many dependencies between the options and the modules 
>and I want to add them to the database too. The dependencies can be found 
>out with the Kconfig files, I think.
>
>I've already looked into the source files of some modules, but I can not 
>find any commonalities which would make it easy to find the module-name 
>which will be build.
>
>I've found some stuff like this:
>#define DRIVER_NAME	"8139too"
>or things linke:
>#define <something>_MODULES_NAME	"some string which seems to be the 
>descriptive name"
>
>But this doesn't really help... :(
>
>Sincerely
>
>Alexander Mieland
>
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>

Jan Engelhardt
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| Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator
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