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<sect2><title>Contents of modutils-&modutils-contversion;</title>
<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>depmod, genksyms, insmod, insmod_ksymoops_clean, kallsyms (link to
insmod), kernelversion, ksyms, lsmod (link to insmod),
modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod) and rmmod</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>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>
</sect3>
</sect2>