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On Wednesday 10 December 2008 22:56:30 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Summary: |
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> How can I tie a module name (tg3) to a kernel config line? |
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> Details: |
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> Usually its kind of obvious if you dig around in .config a bit, but |
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> now always. |
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> I find the module at /lib/modules/2.6.24*/: |
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> ../kernel/drivers/net/tg3.ko |
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> But I haven't been able to nail that to a kernel config line. |
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Short answer: TIGON3 |
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Long answer: |
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You need to study voodoo and sacrifice a virgin at full moon to be able to |
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find that out reliably. I can't, so I use google, which sometimes works :-) |
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I'm also sure someone somewhere must have made a cross-reference list, but I |
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haven't found it despite much search. Yes, this is what I would calle a major |
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shortcoming in the kernel code. |
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There's also the search function in menuconfig invoked with "/", which in this |
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case doesn't help at all as tg3 doesn't show up. |
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But help is at hand! |
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The .config option you are looking for is CONFIG_TIGON3 |
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My last notebook had one of those and I searched for ages before spotting one |
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day that "t", "g" and "3" all appeared in "TIGON3". |
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Sorry that I couldn't help with the more general question, at least you got an |
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answer for the more specific case. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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