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@@ -11,23 +11,31 @@ config MODPROBE_SMALL
11 help 11 help
12 Simplified modutils. 12 Simplified modutils.
13 13
14 With this option modprobe does not use or require 14 With this option modprobe does not require modules.dep file
15 modules.dep or /etc/modules.conf files. 15 and does not use /etc/modules.conf file.
16 It scans module files in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and 16 It scans module files in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and
17 determines dependencies and module alias names on the fly. 17 determines dependencies and module alias names on the fly.
18 This may make module loading slower, most notably 18 This may make module loading slower, most notably
19 when one needs to load module by alias (this requires 19 when one needs to load module by alias (this requires
20 scanning through module _bodies_). 20 scanning through module _bodies_).
21 21
22 At the first attempt to load a module by alias modprobe
23 will try to generate modules.dep.bb file in order to speed up
24 future loads by alias. Failure to do so (read-only /lib/modules,
25 etc) is not reported, and future modprobes will be slow too.
26
27 NB: modules.dep.bb file format is not compatible
28 with modules.dep file as created/used by standard module tools.
29
22 Additional module parameters can be stored in 30 Additional module parameters can be stored in
23 /etc/modules/$module_name files. 31 /etc/modules/$module_name files.
24 32
25 Apart from modprobe, other utilities are also provided: 33 Apart from modprobe, other utilities are also provided:
26 - insmod is an alias to modprobe 34 - insmod is an alias to modprobe
27 - rmmod is an alias to modprobe -r 35 - rmmod is an alias to modprobe -r
28 - depmod is provided but does nothing 36 - depmod generates modules.dep.bb
29 37
30 As of 2008-07, this code is experimental. It it 15kb smaller 38 As of 2008-07, this code is experimental. It it 14kb smaller
31 than "non-small" modutils. 39 than "non-small" modutils.
32 40
33config FEATURE_MODPROBE_SMALL_OPTIONS_ON_CMDLINE 41config FEATURE_MODPROBE_SMALL_OPTIONS_ON_CMDLINE