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Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:28:56 +0200
From: iSteve <isteve@rulez.cz>
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Greetings,
in sysfs, /sys/bus/*/drivers lists the driver names, with their exported 
.name (eg. '.name = "EMU10K1_Audigy"' in the module code, from now on 
'driver name'). In /sys/modules, the kernel modules are listed with 
their module name, eg. snd_emu10k1. However, it seems to me that in 
sysfs, there is no way in particular to tell, which module has which 
.name. That is, that snd_emu10k1 is EMU10K1_Audigy and vice versa.

I wonder whether it wouldn't be possible to add a symlink to the 
particular module from the driver, and/or from the module to the driver, 
so the list of devices handled by the module and the module name would 
be accessible. This way, I would know which driver name corresponds to 
which module name and vice versa.

Or am I just boldly missing something, and there is a way how to do this 
from userspace, preferably without reading /proc/kcore?

Thanks in advance for reply.

  - iSteve
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