lfs-book-zh_CN/appendixa/modutils-desc.xml

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<sect2><title>Descriptions</title>

<para>Last checked against version &modutils-contversion;.</para>

<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>

<sect4><title>depmod</title>
<para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable 
kernel modules.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>genksyms</title>
<para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c 
and generates a file containing version information.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>insmod</title>
<para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
<para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in 
2 days.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>kallsyms</title>
<para>kallsyms extracts all kernel symbols for debugging.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>kernelversion</title>
<para>kernelversion reports the major version of the 
running kernel.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>ksyms</title>
<para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>lsmod</title>
<para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>modinfo</title>
<para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and 
displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4>

<sect4><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></sect4>

<sect4><title>rmmod</title>
<para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para></sect4>

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