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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
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@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-modutils" xreflabel="Modutils">
-<title>Installing Modutils-&modutils-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="modutils.html" dir="chapter06"?>
+<title>Modutils-&modutils-version;</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="modutils.html"?>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils"><primary sortas="a-Modutils">Modutils</primary></indexterm>
<para>The Modutils package contains programs for handling kernel modules.</para>
-<screen>&buildtime; &modutils-time;
-&diskspace; &modutils-compsize;</screen>
+<screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
+&buildtime; 2.9 MB</screen>
+
+<para>Modutils installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
+Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed.</para>
-&aa-modutils-down;
-&aa-modutils-dep;
-<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Modutils</title>
@@ -23,14 +30,66 @@
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>And install it:</para>
+<para>Install it:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
-&aa-modutils-shortdesc;
-&aa-modutils-desc;
-</sect1>
+<sect2 id="contents-modutils"><title>Contents of Modutils</title>
+
+<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: depmod, genksyms, insmod,
+insmod_ksymoops_clean, kallsyms (link to insmod), kernelversion, ksyms
+(link to insmod), lsmod (link to insmod), modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod)
+and rmmod (link to insmod)</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils depmod"><primary sortas="b-depmod">depmod</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="depmod"><command>depmod</command> creates a dependency file, based on the
+symbols it finds in the existing set of modules. This dependency file is used
+by modprobe to automatically load the required modules.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils genksyms"><primary sortas="b-genksyms">genksyms</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="genksyms"><command>genksyms</command> generates symbol version information.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils insmod"><primary sortas="b-insmod">insmod</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="insmod"><command>insmod</command> installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils insmod_ksymoops_clean"><primary sortas="b-insmod_ksymoops_clean">insmod_ksymoops_clean</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="insmod_ksymoops_clean"><command>insmod_ksymoops_clean</command> deletes saved ksyms and
+modules not accessed for two days.</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils kallsyms"><primary sortas="b-kallsyms">kallsyms</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="kallsyms"><command>kallsyms</command> extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils kernelversion"><primary sortas="b-kernelversion">kernelversion</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="kernelversion"><command>kernelversion</command> reports the major version of the
+running kernel.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils ksyms"><primary sortas="b-ksyms">ksyms</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="ksyms"><command>ksyms</command> displays exported kernel symbols.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils lsmod"><primary sortas="b-lsmod">lsmod</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="lsmod"><command>lsmod</command> shows which modules are loaded.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils modinfo"><primary sortas="b-modinfo">modinfo</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="modinfo"><command>modinfo</command> examines an object file associated with
+a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils modprobe"><primary sortas="b-modprobe">modprobe</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="modprobe"><command>modprobe</command> uses a dependency file, created by
+depmod, to automatically load the relevant modules.</para>
+
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-modutils rmmod"><primary sortas="b-rmmod">rmmod</primary></indexterm>
+<para id="rmmod"><command>rmmod</command> unloads modules from the running kernel.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+
+
+</sect1>