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