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

[Alexander Mieland <dma147@linux-stats.org>]

Am Friday 03 March 2006 14:35 schrieben Sie:
> >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

Ahh, great, this helps much more!
Thanks. ;)


> >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... :(

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