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authorRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2021-03-24 11:55:30 +0000
committerRon Yorston <rmy@pobox.com>2021-03-24 12:43:15 +0000
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5 5
6menu "Linux Module Utilities" 6menu "Linux Module Utilities"
7 7
8config 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
8INSERT 39INSERT
9 40
10comment "Options common to multiple modutils" 41comment "Options common to multiple modutils"