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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-kmod" role="wrap">
<?dbhtml filename="kmod.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>kmod</productname>
<productnumber>&kmod-version;</productnumber>
<address>&kmod-url;</address>
</sect1info>
<title>Kmod-&kmod-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod">
<primary sortas="a-Kmod">Kmod</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
<para>The Kmod package contains libraries and utilities for loading kernel
modules</para>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&kmod-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&kmod-ch6-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Kmod</title>
<para>Prepare Kmod for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
--bindir=/bin \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--with-rootlibdir=/lib \
--with-xz \
--with-zlib</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-xz, --with-zlib</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>These options enable Kmod to handle compressed kernel modules.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-rootlibdir=/lib</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>This option ensures different library related files are placed
in the correct directories.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite that can be run in the
LFS chroot environment. At a minimum the git program is required and
several tests will not run outside of a git repository. </para>
<!--
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-->
<para>Install the package, and create symlinks for
compatibility with Module-Init-Tools (the package that previously handled
Linux kernel modules):</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
for target in depmod insmod lsmod modinfo modprobe rmmod; do
ln -sfv ../bin/kmod /sbin/$target
done
ln -sfv kmod /bin/lsmod</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-kmod" role="content">
<title>Contents of Kmod</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>depmod (link to kmod), insmod (link to kmod), kmod,
lsmod (link to kmod), modinfo (link to kmod), modprobe (link to kmod),
and rmmod (link to kmod)</seg>
<seg>libkmod.so</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="depmod">
<term><command>depmod</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Creates a dependency file based on the symbols it finds in the
existing set of modules; this dependency file is used by
<command>modprobe</command> to automatically load the required
modules</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod depmod">
<primary sortas="b-depmod">depmod</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="insmod">
<term><command>insmod</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Installs a loadable module in the running kernel</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod insmod">
<primary sortas="b-insmod">insmod</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="kmod">
<term><command>kmod</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Loads and unloads kernel modules</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod kmod">
<primary sortas="b-kmod">kmod</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="lsmod">
<term><command>lsmod</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Lists currently loaded modules</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod lsmod">
<primary sortas="b-lsmod">lsmod</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="modinfo">
<term><command>modinfo</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
displays any information that it can glean</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod modinfo">
<primary sortas="b-modinfo">modinfo</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="modprobe">
<term><command>modprobe</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Uses a dependency file, created by
<command>depmod</command>, to automatically load relevant modules</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod modprobe">
<primary sortas="b-modprobe">modprobe</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="rmmod">
<term><command>rmmod</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Unloads modules from the running kernel</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod rmmod">
<primary sortas="b-rmmod">rmmod</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libkmod">
<term><filename class="libraryfile">libkmod</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>This library is used by other programs to load and unload kernel
modules</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-kmod">
<primary sortas="c-libkmod">libkmod</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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