| 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Modutils</title>
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| 2 |
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| 3 | <para>Last checked against version &modutils-contversion;.</para>
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| 4 |
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| 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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| 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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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <sect4><title>depmod</title>
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| 13 | <para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable
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| 14 | kernel modules.</para></sect4>
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| 16 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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| 19 |
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| 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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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect4><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></sect4>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <sect4><title>kallsyms</title>
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| 28 | <para>kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para></sect4>
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| 30 | <sect4><title>kernelversion</title>
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| 31 | <para>kernelversion reports the major version of the
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| 32 | running kernel.</para></sect4>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <sect4><title>ksyms</title>
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| 35 | <para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect4>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <sect4><title>lsmod</title>
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| 38 | <para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect4>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <sect4><title>modinfo</title>
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| 41 | <para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
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| 42 | displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <sect4><title>modprobe</title>
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| 45 | <para>modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,
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| 46 | to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules
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| 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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| 51 |
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| 52 | </sect3>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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