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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>
The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod,
insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo,
modprobe and rmmod programs.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>depmod</title>
<para>
depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><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>
<sect3><title>insmod</title>
<para>
insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
<para>
insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
2 days.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>kerneld</title>
<para>
kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading of
modules)
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>kernelversion</title>
<para>
kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>ksyms</title>
<para>
ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>lsmod</title>
<para>
lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>modinfo</title>
<para>
modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
displays any information that it can glean.
</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><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>
<sect3><title>rmmod</title>
<para>
rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
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