Re: what kernel modules am I really using?

["Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" <sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net>]

Ivan Glushkov wrote:
> lsmod for me is always showing that no module is used, which is 
> defenetely not true (for example for the driver modules). So, how do I 
> see that for those modules?

There are periods of time when certain modules are not used; for 
example, I'm offline right now, so lsmod tells me this:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ppp_deflate             3000   0 (autoclean)
zlib_deflate           18840   0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp                4184   0 (autoclean)

But when I'm online, ppp_deflate is used. I've always used intuition and 
guesswork to connect program with the modules they use. For examples, 
the ppp and ppp_deflate modules are use by the pppd daemon; the snd-* 
modules are used by alsa.

I guess you could remove a module with rmmod, then run a program that 
you think uses that module and see what happens. If that program uses 
the module, either the module will be automatically reloaded, or the 
program will abort.