While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware information, to find the packages that support a given piece of @@ -19,6 +19,23 @@ values stands for. It is in part based on information from <URL: http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c > and <URL: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup >. +
The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using +this shell script:
+ ++find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u ++ +
The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found +using modinfo:
+ ++% /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias: +alias: serio:ty05pr*id*ex* +alias: serio:ty01pr*id*ex* +% ++
PCI subtype
A typical PCI entry can look like this. This is an Intel Host @@ -198,7 +215,7 @@ hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.
one can use the following shell script:
- for id in $(cat $(find /sys -name modalias)|sort -u); do \
+ for id in $(find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u); do \
echo "$id" ; \
/sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/ /' ; \
done
@@ -228,3 +245,7 @@ list is very long on my test machine):
packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
#debian-devel.
+
+Update 2013-01-15: Rewrite "cat $(find ...)" to
+"find ... -print0 | xargs -0 cat" to make sure it handle directories
+in /sys/ with space in them.