[e617152] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[e617152] | 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[087e584] | 5 | <para>(Last checked against version &modutils-contversion;.)</para>
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[6370fa6] | 6 |
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[e617152] | 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 8 |
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[bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect4><title>depmod</title>
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[53ad30a] | 10 | <para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable
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[bdc08c1] | 11 | kernel modules.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 12 |
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[bdc08c1] | 13 | <sect4><title>genksyms</title>
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[2c094d6] | 14 | <para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c
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[bdc08c1] | 15 | and generates a file containing version information.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 16 |
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[bdc08c1] | 17 | <sect4><title>insmod</title>
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| 18 | <para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 19 |
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[bdc08c1] | 20 | <sect4><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
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[b822811] | 21 | <para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
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[bdc08c1] | 22 | 2 days.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 23 |
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[bdc08c1] | 24 | <sect4><title>kallsyms</title>
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| 25 | <para>kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 26 |
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[bdc08c1] | 27 | <sect4><title>kernelversion</title>
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[53ad30a] | 28 | <para>kernelversion reports the major version of the
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[bdc08c1] | 29 | running kernel.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 30 |
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[bdc08c1] | 31 | <sect4><title>ksyms</title>
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| 32 | <para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 33 |
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[bdc08c1] | 34 | <sect4><title>lsmod</title>
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| 35 | <para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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[bdc08c1] | 37 | <sect4><title>modinfo</title>
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[b822811] | 38 | <para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
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[2c094d6] | 39 | displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 40 |
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[bdc08c1] | 41 | <sect4><title>modprobe</title>
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[cf24ff1] | 42 | <para>modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,
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[6370fa6] | 43 | to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules
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[bdc08c1] | 44 | available in predefined directory trees.</para></sect4>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <sect4><title>rmmod</title>
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| 47 | <para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect4>
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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[bdc08c1] | 49 | </sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 50 |
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| 51 | </sect2>
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