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  1. <sect2>
  2. <title>Contents</title>
  3. <para>The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod,
  4. insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo,
  5. modprobe and rmmod programs.</para>
  6. </sect2>
  7. <sect2><title>Description</title>
  8. <sect3><title>depmod</title>
  9. <para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.</para>
  10. </sect3>
  11. <sect3><title>genksyms</title>
  12. <para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c
  13. and generates a file containing version information.</para>
  14. </sect3>
  15. <sect3><title>insmod</title>
  16. <para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para>
  17. </sect3>
  18. <sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
  19. <para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
  20. 2 days.</para>
  21. </sect3>
  22. <sect3><title>kerneld</title>
  23. <para>kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading
  24. of modules)</para>
  25. </sect3>
  26. <sect3><title>kernelversion</title>
  27. <para>kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.</para>
  28. </sect3>
  29. <sect3><title>ksyms</title>
  30. <para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para>
  31. </sect3>
  32. <sect3><title>lsmod</title>
  33. <para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para>
  34. </sect3>
  35. <sect3><title>modinfo</title>
  36. <para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
  37. displays any information that it can glean.</para>
  38. </sect3>
  39. <sect3><title>modprobe</title>
  40. <para>Modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,
  41. to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules
  42. available in predefined directory trees.</para>
  43. </sect3>
  44. <sect3><title>rmmod</title>
  45. <para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para>
  46. </sect3>
  47. </sect2>