Re: [gentoo-user] "pstree" for modules ?

[Florian Philipp]

Am 27.09.2011 20:24, schrieb meino.cramer@×××.de:
> Hi,
>
> ist there a tool, which displays the dependencies of loaded modules as
> a tree like pstree does for tasks?
>
> Thank you very much for any help in advance! :)
>
> Best regards
> mcc
>
>
>

Well, it's not a tool and it cannot print to terminal but you might want
to try out the bash skript below. It depends on media-gfx/graphviz to
create a postscript file visualizing the dependencies. The file will be
opened by your default postscript viewer (evince, okular, etc.).

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp

psFile=$(tempfile --suffix=.ps)
lsmod | tail -n +2 | awk '{print $1,$4}' | tr ' ,' ' ' |
(
  echo 'digraph modules { rankdir=LR; '
    while read line; do
      dependencies=( $line )
      dependingOn="${dependencies[0]}"
      unset dependencies[0]
      for dependant in "${dependencies[@]}"; do
        echo "\"$dependant\" -> \"$dependingOn\";"
      done
    done
    echo '}'
) | dot -Tps > "$psFile"
xdg-open "$psFile"
unlink "$psFile"