From 978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:29:16 +0000
Subject: Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2879 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 appendixa/modutils-desc.xml | 46 +++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

(limited to 'appendixa/modutils-desc.xml')

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>
 
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