-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/11 16:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> when doing as root >> >> lspci -vk >> >> I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. >> Additionally there are often two lines added to each >> device saying similiar things like: >> >> Kernel driver in use: >XYZ> >> Kernel modules: <XYZ> >> >> and there other devices do not have similiar entries. >> >> My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, >> which do not need any driver to work and those, which >> need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't >> compiled in/compiled as module? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for any help! >> Best regards, >> mcc > > Devices that need a driver are listed as 'Kernel driver in use:' > whether the driver is compiled in or not. > > Devices that have their driver compiled in do not have the line > 'Kernel modules:' > > Devices that have neither line are controlled by the kernel but don't > need anything from the driver section. > > I suppose there is the possibility that lspci could find a PCI device > which hasn't had a driver selected as module or builtin and then not > show anything. In this case I expect that the device wouldn't > function. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > Check out http://www.kernel-seeds.org for a walkthrough of kernel configuration or dump the results of lspci -n into http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for a list of modules
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