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<sect2>
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<title>Contents</title>
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<para>The Modutils package contains the depmod, genksyms, insmod,
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insmod_ksymoops_clean, kerneld, kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod, modinfo,
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modprobe and rmmod programs.</para>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
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<sect3><title>depmod</title>
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<para>depmod handles dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>genksyms</title>
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<para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c
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and generates a file containing version information.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>insmod</title>
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<para>insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>insmod_ksymoops_clean</title>
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<para>insmod_ksymoops_clean deletes saved ksyms and modules not accessed in
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2 days.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>kerneld</title>
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<para>kerneld performs kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading
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of modules)</para>
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<sect3><title>kernelversion</title>
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<para>kernelversion reports the major version of the running kernel.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>ksyms</title>
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<para>ksyms displays exported kernel symbols.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>lsmod</title>
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<para>lsmod shows information about all loaded modules.</para>
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<sect3><title>modinfo</title>
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<para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and
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displays any information that it can glean.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>modprobe</title>
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<para>Modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,
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to automatically load the relevant module(s) from the set of modules
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available in predefined directory trees.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3><title>rmmod</title>
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<para>rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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