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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-02-06 23:15:46 +0000
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-<sect2>
-<title>Contents</title>
+<sect2><title>Contents of modutils-&modutils-contversion;</title>
-<para>The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod,
-insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo,
-modprobe and rmmod programs.</para>
+<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
+<para>depmod, genksyms, insmod, insmod_ksymoops_clean, kallsyms (link to
+insmod), kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod (link to insmod),
+modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod) and rmmod</para></sect3>
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2><title>Description</title>
+<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
-<sect3><title>depmod</title>
+<sect4><title>depmod</title>
<para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable
-kernel modules.</para></sect3>
+kernel modules.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>genksyms</title>
+<sect4><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>
+and generates a file containing version information.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>insmod</title>
-<para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect3>
+<sect4><title>insmod</title>
+<para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
+<sect4><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
<para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
-2 days.</para></sect3>
+2 days.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>kerneld</title>
-<para>kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading
-of modules)</para></sect3>
+<sect4><title>kallsyms</title>
+<para>kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>kernelversion</title>
+<sect4><title>kernelversion</title>
<para>kernelversion reports the major version of the
-running kernel.</para></sect3>
+running kernel.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>ksyms</title>
-<para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect3>
+<sect4><title>ksyms</title>
+<para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>lsmod</title>
-<para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect3>
+<sect4><title>lsmod</title>
+<para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>modinfo</title>
+<sect4><title>modinfo</title>
<para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
-displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect3>
+displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>modprobe</title>
+<sect4><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>
+available in predefined directory trees.</para></sect4>
+
+<sect4><title>rmmod</title>
+<para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect4>
-<sect3><title>rmmod</title>
-<para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect3>
+</sect3>
</sect2>