[8fcc2c0] | 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Modutils</title>
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| 3 | <para>Last checked against version &modutils-contversion;.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[bdc08c1] | 5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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| 6 | <para>depmod, genksyms, insmod, insmod_ksymoops_clean, kallsyms (link to
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[3c6ef476] | 7 | insmod), kernelversion, ksyms (link to insmod), lsmod (link to insmod),
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| 8 | modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod) and rmmod (link to insmod)</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 9 |
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[bdc08c1] | 10 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[bdc08c1] | 12 | <sect4><title>depmod</title>
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[53ad30a] | 13 | <para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable
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[bdc08c1] | 14 | kernel modules.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 15 |
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[bdc08c1] | 16 | <sect4><title>genksyms</title>
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[2c094d6] | 17 | <para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c
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[bdc08c1] | 18 | and generates a file containing version information.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 19 |
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[bdc08c1] | 20 | <sect4><title>insmod</title>
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| 21 | <para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 22 |
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[bdc08c1] | 23 | <sect4><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
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[b822811] | 24 | <para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
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[bdc08c1] | 25 | 2 days.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 26 |
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[bdc08c1] | 27 | <sect4><title>kallsyms</title>
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| 28 | <para>kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 29 |
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[bdc08c1] | 30 | <sect4><title>kernelversion</title>
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[53ad30a] | 31 | <para>kernelversion reports the major version of the
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[bdc08c1] | 32 | running kernel.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 33 |
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[bdc08c1] | 34 | <sect4><title>ksyms</title>
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| 35 | <para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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[bdc08c1] | 37 | <sect4><title>lsmod</title>
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| 38 | <para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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[bdc08c1] | 40 | <sect4><title>modinfo</title>
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[b822811] | 41 | <para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
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[2c094d6] | 42 | displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 43 |
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[bdc08c1] | 44 | <sect4><title>modprobe</title>
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[cf24ff1] | 45 | <para>modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,
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[6370fa6] | 46 | to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules
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[bdc08c1] | 47 | available in predefined directory trees.</para></sect4>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <sect4><title>rmmod</title>
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| 50 | <para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 51 |
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[bdc08c1] | 52 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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