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diff --git a/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml index f48b28ec6..fde480fb7 100644 --- a/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml @@ -1,54 +1,53 @@ -<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> |