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author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cf0fb85fe --- /dev/null +++ b/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +<sect2> +<title>Contents</title> + +<para> +The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod, +insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo, +modprobe and rmmod programs. +</para> + +</sect2> + +<sect2><title>Description</title> + +<sect3><title>depmod</title> + +<para> +depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>genksyms</title> + +<para> +genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c +and generates a file containing version information. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>insmod</title> + +<para> +insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title> + +<para> +insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in +2 days. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>kerneld</title> + +<para> +kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading of +modules) +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>kernelversion</title> + +<para> +kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>ksyms</title> + +<para> +ksyms displays exported kernel symbols. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>lsmod</title> + +<para> +lsmod shows information about all loaded modules. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>modinfo</title> + +<para> +modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and +displays any information that it can glean. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>modprobe</title> + +<para> +Modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod, +to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules +available in predefined directory trees. +</para> + +</sect3> + +<sect3><title>rmmod</title> + +<para> +rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel. +</para> + +</sect3> + +</sect2> + |