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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
- <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
- %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="ch-system-kmod" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="kmod.html"?>
-
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>kmod</productname>
- <productnumber>&kmod-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&kmod-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
-
- <title>Kmod-&kmod-version;</title>
-
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod">
- <primary sortas="a-Kmod">Kmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
-
- <para>The Kmod package contains libraries and utilities for loading kernel
- modules</para>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&kmod-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&kmod-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Kmod</title>
-
- <para>Prepare Kmod for compilation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
- --bindir=/bin \
- --sysconfdir=/etc \
- --with-rootlibdir=/lib \
- --with-xz \
- --with-zlib</userinput></screen>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-xz, --with-zlib</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>These options enable Kmod to handle compressed kernel modules.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--with-rootlibdir=/lib</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This option ensures different library related files are placed
- in the correct directories.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>This package does not come with a test suite that can be run in the
- LFS chroot environment. At a minimum the git program is required and
- several tests will not run outside of a git repository. </para>
-
-<!--
- <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
--->
- <para>Install the package, and create symlinks for
- compatibility with Module-Init-Tools (the package that previously handled
- Linux kernel modules):</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
-
-for target in depmod insmod lsmod modinfo modprobe rmmod; do
- ln -sfv ../bin/kmod /sbin/$target
-done
-
-ln -sfv kmod /bin/lsmod</userinput></screen>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="contents-kmod" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Kmod</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>depmod (link to kmod), insmod (link to kmod), kmod,
- lsmod (link to kmod), modinfo (link to kmod), modprobe (link to kmod),
- and rmmod (link to kmod)</seg>
- <seg>libkmod.so</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
- <varlistentry id="depmod">
- <term><command>depmod</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Creates a dependency file based on the symbols it finds in the
- existing set of modules; this dependency file is used by
- <command>modprobe</command> to automatically load the required
- modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod depmod">
- <primary sortas="b-depmod">depmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="insmod">
- <term><command>insmod</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Installs a loadable module in the running kernel</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod insmod">
- <primary sortas="b-insmod">insmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="kmod">
- <term><command>kmod</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Loads and unloads kernel modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod kmod">
- <primary sortas="b-kmod">kmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="lsmod">
- <term><command>lsmod</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Lists currently loaded modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod lsmod">
- <primary sortas="b-lsmod">lsmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="modinfo">
- <term><command>modinfo</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
- displays any information that it can glean</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod modinfo">
- <primary sortas="b-modinfo">modinfo</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="modprobe">
- <term><command>modprobe</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Uses a dependency file, created by
- <command>depmod</command>, to automatically load relevant modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod modprobe">
- <primary sortas="b-modprobe">modprobe</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="rmmod">
- <term><command>rmmod</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Unloads modules from the running kernel</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod rmmod">
- <primary sortas="b-rmmod">rmmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="libkmod">
- <term><filename class="libraryfile">libkmod</filename></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This library is used by other programs to load and unload kernel
- modules</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod">
- <primary sortas="c-libkmod">libkmod</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </sect2>
-
-</sect1>
-