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author | Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> | 2021-03-24 11:55:30 +0000 |
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committer | Ron Yorston <rmy@pobox.com> | 2021-03-24 12:43:15 +0000 |
commit | 355a7a6c1e9626b7afe8758a6095f3cf275c52e1 (patch) | |
tree | 6dab679c15b049cab97212e0b43077132eec1fbe /modutils/Config.src | |
parent | 71ecc8033e6989996057b32577e71148fd544596 (diff) | |
parent | 889425812b5cda8b3394d73253cbde7355fb1115 (diff) | |
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Merge tag '1_26_2' into w32_1_26_2w32_1_26_2
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diff --git a/modutils/Config.src b/modutils/Config.src index 4227f356a..84ff34a08 100644 --- a/modutils/Config.src +++ b/modutils/Config.src | |||
@@ -5,6 +5,37 @@ | |||
5 | 5 | ||
6 | menu "Linux Module Utilities" | 6 | menu "Linux Module Utilities" |
7 | 7 | ||
8 | config MODPROBE_SMALL | ||
9 | bool "Simplified modutils" | ||
10 | default y | ||
11 | select PLATFORM_LINUX | ||
12 | help | ||
13 | Simplified modutils. | ||
14 | |||
15 | With this option modprobe does not require modules.dep file | ||
16 | and does not use /etc/modules.conf file. | ||
17 | It scans module files in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and | ||
18 | determines dependencies and module alias names on the fly. | ||
19 | This may make module loading slower, most notably | ||
20 | when one needs to load module by alias (this requires | ||
21 | scanning through module _bodies_). | ||
22 | |||
23 | At the first attempt to load a module by alias modprobe | ||
24 | will try to generate modules.dep.bb file in order to speed up | ||
25 | future loads by alias. Failure to do so (read-only /lib/modules, | ||
26 | etc) is not reported, and future modprobes will be slow too. | ||
27 | |||
28 | NB: modules.dep.bb file format is not compatible | ||
29 | with modules.dep file as created/used by standard module tools. | ||
30 | |||
31 | Additional module parameters can be stored in | ||
32 | /etc/modules/$module_name files. | ||
33 | |||
34 | Apart from modprobe, other utilities are also provided: | ||
35 | - insmod is an alias to modprobe | ||
36 | - rmmod is an alias to modprobe -r | ||
37 | - depmod generates modules.dep.bb | ||
38 | |||
8 | INSERT | 39 | INSERT |
9 | 40 | ||
10 | comment "Options common to multiple modutils" | 41 | comment "Options common to multiple modutils" |