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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[3be4d97] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-modutils" xreflabel="Modutils">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Modutils-&modutils-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="modutils.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils"><primary sortas="a-Modutils">Modutils</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[5888299] | 12 | <para>The Modutils package contains programs for handling kernel modules.</para>
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| 13 |
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[673b0d8] | 14 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
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| 15 | &buildtime; 2.9 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>Modutils installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
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| 18 | Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.</para>
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[3554fa3a] | 19 |
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[73aedd1d] | 20 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of Modutils</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>Prepare Modutils for compilation:</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 32 |
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[673b0d8] | 33 | <para>Install it:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 34 |
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| 35 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 38 |
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[5888299] | 39 |
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[673b0d8] | 40 | <sect2 id="contents-modutils"><title>Contents of Modutils</title>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: depmod, genksyms, insmod,
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| 43 | insmod_ksymoops_clean, kallsyms (link to insmod), kernelversion, ksyms
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| 44 | (link to insmod), lsmod (link to insmod), modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod)
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| 45 | and rmmod (link to insmod)</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | </sect2>
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| 48 |
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils depmod"><primary sortas="b-depmod">depmod</primary></indexterm>
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| 53 | <para id="depmod"><command>depmod</command> creates a dependency file, based on the
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| 54 | symbols it finds in the existing set of modules. This dependency file is used
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| 55 | by modprobe to automatically load the required modules.</para>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils genksyms"><primary sortas="b-genksyms">genksyms</primary></indexterm>
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| 58 | <para id="genksyms"><command>genksyms</command> generates symbol version information.</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils insmod"><primary sortas="b-insmod">insmod</primary></indexterm>
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| 61 | <para id="insmod"><command>insmod</command> installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils insmod_ksymoops_clean"><primary sortas="b-insmod_ksymoops_clean">insmod_ksymoops_clean</primary></indexterm>
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| 64 | <para id="insmod_ksymoops_clean"><command>insmod_ksymoops_clean</command> deletes saved ksyms and
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| 65 | modules not accessed for two days.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 66 |
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[673b0d8] | 67 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils kallsyms"><primary sortas="b-kallsyms">kallsyms</primary></indexterm>
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| 68 | <para id="kallsyms"><command>kallsyms</command> extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils kernelversion"><primary sortas="b-kernelversion">kernelversion</primary></indexterm>
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| 71 | <para id="kernelversion"><command>kernelversion</command> reports the major version of the
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| 72 | running kernel.</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils ksyms"><primary sortas="b-ksyms">ksyms</primary></indexterm>
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| 75 | <para id="ksyms"><command>ksyms</command> displays exported kernel symbols.</para>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils lsmod"><primary sortas="b-lsmod">lsmod</primary></indexterm>
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| 78 | <para id="lsmod"><command>lsmod</command> shows which modules are loaded.</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils modinfo"><primary sortas="b-modinfo">modinfo</primary></indexterm>
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| 81 | <para id="modinfo"><command>modinfo</command> examines an object file associated with
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| 82 | a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean.</para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils modprobe"><primary sortas="b-modprobe">modprobe</primary></indexterm>
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| 85 | <para id="modprobe"><command>modprobe</command> uses a dependency file, created by
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| 86 | depmod, to automatically load the relevant modules.</para>
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| 87 |
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| 88 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils rmmod"><primary sortas="b-rmmod">rmmod</primary></indexterm>
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| 89 | <para id="rmmod"><command>rmmod</command> unloads modules from the running kernel.</para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | </sect2>
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| 92 |
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| 93 |
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| 94 |
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| 95 | </sect1>
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