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diff --git a/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml index e3e84aff7..08b8da2a6 100644 --- a/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml @@ -6,45 +6,33 @@ <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title> -<sect4><title>depmod</title> -<para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable -kernel modules.</para></sect4> +<para><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> -<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></sect4> +<para><command>genksyms</command> generates symbol version information.</para> -<sect4><title>insmod</title> -<para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect4> +<para><command>insmod</command> installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para> -<sect4><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title> -<para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in -2 days.</para></sect4> +<para><command>insmod_ksymoops_clean</command> deletes saved ksyms and +modules not accessed for two days.</para> -<sect4><title>kallsyms</title> -<para>kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para></sect4> +<para><command>kallsyms</command> extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para> -<sect4><title>kernelversion</title> -<para>kernelversion reports the major version of the -running kernel.</para></sect4> +<para><command>kernelversion</command> reports the major version of the +running kernel.</para> -<sect4><title>ksyms</title> -<para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect4> +<para><command>ksyms</command> displays exported kernel symbols.</para> -<sect4><title>lsmod</title> -<para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect4> +<para><command>lsmod</command> shows which modules are loaded.</para> -<sect4><title>modinfo</title> -<para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and -displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4> +<para><command>modinfo</command> examines an object file associated with +a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean.</para> -<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></sect4> +<para><command>modprobe</command> uses a dependency file, created by +depmod, to automatically load the relevant modules.</para> -<sect4><title>rmmod</title> -<para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect4> +<para><command>rmmod</command> unloads modules from the running kernel.</para> </sect3> |