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