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