lfs-book/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml

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<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>

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<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>depmod</title>

<para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.</para>

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<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>

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<sect3><title>insmod</title>

<para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para>

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<sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>

<para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in 
2 days.</para>

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<sect3><title>kerneld</title>

<para>kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading 
of modules)</para>

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<sect3><title>kernelversion</title>

<para>kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.</para>

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<sect3><title>ksyms</title>

<para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para>

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<sect3><title>lsmod</title>

<para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para>

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<sect3><title>modinfo</title>

<para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and 
displays any  information that it can glean.</para>

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<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>

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<sect3><title>rmmod</title>

<para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para>

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