1 | <sect2>
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2 | <title>Contents</title>
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3 |
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4 | <para>The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod,
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5 | insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo,
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6 | modprobe and rmmod programs.</para>
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7 |
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8 | </sect2>
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9 |
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10 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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11 |
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12 | <sect3><title>depmod</title>
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13 | <para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable
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14 | kernel modules.</para></sect3>
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15 |
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16 | <sect3><title>genksyms</title>
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17 | <para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c
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18 | and generates a file containing version information.</para></sect3>
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19 |
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20 | <sect3><title>insmod</title>
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21 | <para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect3>
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22 |
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23 | <sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
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24 | <para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
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25 | 2 days.</para></sect3>
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26 |
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27 | <sect3><title>kerneld</title>
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28 | <para>kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading
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29 | of modules)</para></sect3>
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30 |
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31 | <sect3><title>kernelversion</title>
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32 | <para>kernelversion reports the major version of the
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33 | running kernel.</para></sect3>
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34 |
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35 | <sect3><title>ksyms</title>
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36 | <para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect3>
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37 |
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38 | <sect3><title>lsmod</title>
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39 | <para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect3>
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40 |
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41 | <sect3><title>modinfo</title>
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42 | <para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
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43 | displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect3>
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44 |
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45 | <sect3><title>modprobe</title>
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46 | <para>Modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,
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47 | to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules
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48 | available in predefined directory trees.</para></sect3>
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49 |
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50 | <sect3><title>rmmod</title>
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51 | <para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect3>
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52 |
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53 | </sect2>
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54 |
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