Man pages for Kernel API

John de la Garza john at jjdev.com
Tue Jun 3 14:19:03 EDT 2014


On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 10:12:24AM +0530, Dipanjan Das wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Like there is section #2 of man pages dedicated to syscalls, is there any
> official way to get the list of all supported Kernal APIs?

check out the man page for man itself (man man)

look for this:

9   Kernel routines [Non standard]



You may need to install them (man 9 files) as they may not be installed

###### example

john at vega:~/download/koans$ man -k printk
printk (9)           - print a kernel message
printk_timed_ratelimit (9) - caller-controlled printk ratelimiting
snd_printd (9)       - debug printk
snd_printdd (9)      - debug printk
snd_printk (9)       - printk wrapper
trace_printk (9)     - printf formatting in the ftrace buffer




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