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| author | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2014-03-06 02:46:27 -0300 |
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| committer | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2014-03-06 02:46:27 -0300 |
| commit | eb18b26905fc6ae0fa55308ba6b5165e6b4b4478 (patch) | |
| tree | b000db99cd5833e7c0280915f9f35160ff5d0b7d /man | |
| parent | bccb4b2545a409a909d2ad1bc19a73300ae07c49 (diff) | |
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man: clarify the support to modules.dep file
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/modprobe.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/modules.dep.xml | 19 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/modprobe.xml b/man/modprobe.xml index 4c6c832..9cb4476 100644 --- a/man/modprobe.xml +++ b/man/modprobe.xml @@ -101,8 +101,7 @@ </para> <para> <command>modprobe</command> expects an up-to-date - <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> file (or fallback human - readable <filename>modules.dep</filename> file), as generated + <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> file as generated by the corresponding <command>depmod</command> utility shipped along with <command>modprobe</command> (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>depmod</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum> diff --git a/man/modules.dep.xml b/man/modules.dep.xml index 034c2b4..e53293a 100644 --- a/man/modules.dep.xml +++ b/man/modules.dep.xml @@ -40,16 +40,17 @@ <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title> <para> - The <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> as generated by - module-init-tools <command>depmod</command>, lists the dependencies for + <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> is a binary file generated by + <command>depmod</command> listing the dependencies for every module in the directories under - <filename>/lib/modules/</filename><replaceable>version</replaceable>, - where <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> (or the human readable version - <filename>modules.dep</filename>) is also located. It is used by - utilities such as <command>modprobe</command>. The binary version will be - used by default, if it was generated by a compatible version of - <command>depmod</command>, with fallback to the generic - <filename>modules.dep</filename>. + <filename>/lib/modules/</filename><replaceable>version</replaceable>. + It is used by kmod tools such as <command>modprobe</command> and + libkmod. + </para> + <para> + Its text counterpar is located in the same directory with the name + <filename>modules.dep</filename>. The text version is maintained only + for easy of reading by humans and is in no way used by any kmod tool. </para> <para> These files are not intended for editing or use by any additional |