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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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