From bdc08c1c6419be50edb433c4425481bdabf8a5ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:15:46 +0000 Subject: [Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1549 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/modutils-desc.xml | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/modutils-desc.xml') 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 @@ - -Contents +Contents of modutils-&modutils-contversion; -The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod, -insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo, -modprobe and rmmod programs. +Program Files +depmod, genksyms, insmod, insmod_ksymoops_clean, kallsyms (link to +insmod), kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod (link to insmod), +modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod) and rmmod - - -Description +Descriptions -depmod +depmod depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable -kernel modules. +kernel modules. -genksyms +genksyms genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c -and generates a file containing version information. +and generates a file containing version information. -insmod -insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel. +insmod +insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel. -insmod_ksymoops_clean +insmod_ksymoops_clean insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in -2 days. +2 days. -kerneld -kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading -of modules) +kallsyms +kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging. -kernelversion +kernelversion kernelversion reports the major version of the -running kernel. +running kernel. -ksyms -ksyms displays exported kernel symbols. +ksyms +ksyms displays exported kernel symbols. -lsmod -lsmod shows information about all loaded modules. +lsmod +lsmod shows information about all loaded modules. -modinfo +modinfo modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and -displays any information that it can glean. +displays any information that it can glean. -modprobe +modprobe 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. +available in predefined directory trees. + +rmmod +rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel. -rmmod -rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel. + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf