source: patches/module-init-tools-3.6-manpages-1.patch@ 04494b7

Submitted By: Jim Gifford <jim at cross-lfs dot org>
Date: 2009-02-17
Initial Package Version: 3.6
Upstream Status: Unknown
Origin: Ken Moffat <ken at linuxfromscratch dot org>
Description: Provides the man pages (adding docbook2man with all its
             dependencies would be a major addition to the book, so I built it
             -once- on a completed system and saved the data).
             Was fixed under version 3.4, but with 3.6 they are missing again

diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/depmod.8 module-init-tools-3.6/depmod.8
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/depmod.8 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/depmod.8      2009-02-17 23:08:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "DEPMOD" "8" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+depmod \- program to generate modules.dep and map files.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBdepmod\fR [ \fB-b \fIbasedir\fB\fR ] [ \fB-e\fR ] [ \fB-F \fISystem.map\fB\fR ] [ \fB-n\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB\fIversion\fB\fR ] [ \fB-A\fR ]
+
+
+\fBdepmod\fR [ \fB-e\fR ] [ \fB-F\fISystem.map\fB\fR ] [ \fB-n\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB\fIversion\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fIfilename\fB\fR\fI ...\fR ]
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+Linux kernel modules can provide services (called "symbols") for
+other modules to use (using EXPORT_SYMBOL in the code).  If a
+second module uses this symbol, that second module clearly
+depends on the first module.  These dependencies can get quite
+complex.
+.PP
+\fBdepmod\fR creates a list of module dependencies,
+by reading each module under
+\fI/lib/modules/\fR\fIversion\fR 
+and determining what symbols it exports, and what symbols it
+needs.  By default this list is written to
+\fImodules.dep\fR in the same directory.  If
+filenames are given on the command line, only those modules are
+examined (which is rarely useful, unless all modules are
+listed).
+.PP
+If a \fIversion\fR is provided, then that
+kernel version's module directory is used, rather than the
+current kernel version (as returned by "uname -r").
+.PP
+\fBdepmod\fR will also generate various map files
+in this directory, for use by the hotplug infrastructure.
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.TP
+\fB-a --all \fR
+Probe all modules. This option is enabled by default if no
+file names are given in the command-line.
+.TP
+\fB-A --quick \fR
+This option scans to see if any modules are newer than the
+\fImodules.dep\fR file before any work is done:
+if not, it silently exits rather than regenerating the files.
+.TP
+\fB-b \fIbasedir\fB --basedir \fIbasedir\fB \fR
+If your modules are not currently in the (normal)
+directory
+\fI/lib/modules/\fR\fIversion\fR,
+but in a staging area, you can specify a
+\fIbasedir\fR which is prepended to
+the directory name.  This
+\fIbasedir\fR is stripped from the
+resulting \fImodules.dep\fR file, so it
+is ready to be moved into the normal location.
+.TP
+\fB-C --config \fIfile or directory\fB \fR
+This option overrides the default configuration file
+(/etc/depmod.conf or /etc/depmod.d/ if that is not found).
+.TP
+\fB-e --errsyms \fR
+When combined with the \fB-F\fR option, this
+reports any symbols which a module needs which are not
+supplied by other modules or the kernel.  Normally, any
+symbols not provided by modules are assumed to be
+provided by the kernel (which should be true in a
+perfect world).
+.TP
+\fB-F --filesyms \fISystem.map\fB \fR
+Supplied with the \fISystem.map\fR produced
+when the kernel was built, this allows the
+\fB-e\fR option to report unresolved symbols.
+.TP
+\fB-h --help \fR
+Print the help message, and exit.
+.TP
+\fB-n --dry-run \fR
+This sends the resulting modules.dep, then the various
+map files, to standard output, rather than writing them into
+the module directory.
+.TP
+\fB-v --verbose \fR
+In verbose mode \fBdepmod\fR will print (to stdout)
+all the symbols each module depends on and the module's file name
+which provides that symbol.
+.TP
+\fB-V --version \fR
+Show version of program, and exit. See below for caveats when
+run on older kernels.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+This version of \fBdepmod\fR is for kernels
+2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a kernel
+with support for old-style modules, or the version specified is
+before 2.5.48, it will attempt to run
+\fBdepmod.old\fR in its place, so it is completely
+transparent to the user.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8),
+\fBmodules.dep\fR(5),
+\fBdepmod.old\fR(8)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/depmod.conf.5 module-init-tools-3.6/depmod.conf.5
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/depmod.conf.5    1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/depmod.conf.5 2009-02-17 23:07:59.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "DEPMOD.CONF" "5" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+depmod.conf, depmod.d \- Configuration file/directory for depmod
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+The order in which modules are processed by the
+\fBdepmod\fR command can be altered on a global or
+per-module basis. This is typically useful in cases where built-in
+kernel modules are complemented by custom built versions of the
+same and the user wishes to affect the priority of processing in
+order to override the module version supplied by the kernel.
+.PP
+The format of \fIdepmod.conf\fR and files under \fIdepmod.d\fR is simple: one
+command per line, with blank lines and lines starting with #
+ignored (useful for adding comments).  A \\ at the end of a line
+causes it to continue on the next line, which makes the file a
+bit neater.
+.SH "COMMANDS"
+.TP
+\fBsearch \fIsubdirectory...\fB \fR
+This allows you to specify the order in which /lib/modules
+(or other configured module location) subdirectories will
+be processed by \fBdepmod\fR\&. Directories are
+listed in order, with the highest priority given to the
+first listed directory and the lowest to the last. The
+special keyword \fBbuilt-in\fR refers to
+the standard module directories installed by the kernel.
+
+By default, depmod will give a higher priority to 
+a directory with the name \fBupdates\fR
+using this built-in search string: "updates built-in"
+but more complex arrangements are possible and are
+used in several popular distributions.
+.TP
+\fBoverride \fImodulename\fB \fIkernelversion\fB \fImodulesubdirectory\fB \fR
+This command allows you to override which version of a
+specific module will be used when more than one module
+sharing the same name is processed by the
+\fBdepmod\fR command. It is possible to
+specify one kernel or all kernels using the * wildcard.
+\fImodulesubdirectory\fR is the
+name of the subdirectory under /lib/modules (or other
+module location) where the target module is installed.
+
+For example, it is possible to override the priority of
+an updated test module called \fBkmp\fR by
+specifying the following command: "override kmp * extra".
+This will ensure that any matching module name installed
+under the \fBextra\fR subdirectory within
+/lib/modules (or other module location) will take priority
+over any likenamed module already provided by the kernel.
+.TP
+\fBinclude \fIfilename\fB \fR
+Using this command, you can include other configuration
+files, or whole directories, which is occasionally useful.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2006, Jon Masters, Red Hat, Inc.
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/insmod.8 module-init-tools-3.6/insmod.8
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/insmod.8 1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/insmod.8      2009-02-17 23:08:05.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "INSMOD" "8" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+insmod \- simple program to insert a module into the Linux Kernel
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBinsmod\fR [ \fB\fIfilename\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fImodule options\fB\fR\fI ...\fR ]
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+\fBinsmod\fR is a trivial program to insert a
+module into the kernel: if the
+\fIfilename\fR is a hyphen, the module is
+taken from standard input. Most users will want to use
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8) instead, which is
+cleverer.
+.PP
+Only the most general of error messages are reported: as the
+work of trying to link the module is now done inside the kernel,
+the \fBdmesg\fR usually gives more information
+about errors.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+This version of \fBinsmod\fR is for kernels
+2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a kernel
+with support for old-style modules (for which much of the work
+was done in userspace), it will attempt to run
+\fBinsmod.old\fR in its place, so it is
+completely transparent to the user.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8),
+\fBrmmod\fR(8),
+\fBlsmod\fR(8),
+\fBinsmod.old\fR(8)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/lsmod.8 module-init-tools-3.6/lsmod.8
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/lsmod.8  1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/lsmod.8       2009-02-17 23:08:07.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "LSMOD" "8" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+lsmod \- program to show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBlsmod\fR
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+\fBlsmod\fR is a trivial program which nicely
+formats the contents of the \fI/proc/modules\fR,
+showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+This version of \fBlsmod\fR is for kernels
+2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a kernel
+with support for old-style modules, it will attempt to run
+\fBlsmod.old\fR in its place, so it is completely
+transparent to the user.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8),
+\fBlsmod.old\fR(8)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modinfo.8 module-init-tools-3.6/modinfo.8
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modinfo.8        1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/modinfo.8     2009-02-17 23:08:16.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "MODINFO" "8" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+modinfo \- program to show information about a Linux Kernel module
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBmodinfo\fR [ \fB-0\fR ] [ \fB-F \fIfield\fB\fR ] [ \fB-k \fIkernel\fB\fR ] [ \fBmodulename|filename\fR\fI ...\fR ]
+
+
+\fBmodinfo -V\fR
+
+
+\fBmodinfo -h\fR
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+\fBmodinfo\fR extracts information from the Linux
+Kernel modules given on the command line.  If the module name is
+not a filename, then the
+\fI/lib/modules/\fR\fIversion\fR
+directory is searched, as done by
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8)\&.
+.PP
+\fBmodinfo\fR by default lists each attribute
+of the module in form \fIfieldname\fR :
+\fIvalue\fR, for easy reading.  The
+filename is listed the same way (although it's not really an
+attribute).
+.PP
+This version of \fBmodinfo\fR can understand
+modules of any Linux Kernel architecture.
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.TP
+\fB-V --version \fR
+Print the modinfo version.  Note BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
+below: you might be printing the version of
+\fBmodinfo.old\fR\&.
+.TP
+\fB-F --field \fR
+Only print this field value, one per line.  This is most
+useful for scripts.  Field names are case-insenitive.
+Common fields (which may not be in every module) include
+author, description,
+license, param,
+depends, and alias\&.
+There are often multiple param,
+alias and depends
+fields.  The special field filename
+lists the filename of the module.
+.TP
+\fB-k \fIkernel\fB \fR
+Provide information about a kernel other than the running one. This
+is particularly useful for distributions needing to extract
+information from a newly installed (but not yet running) set of
+kernel modules. For example, you wish to find which firmware files
+are needed by various modules in a new kernel for which you must
+make an initrd image prior to booting.
+.TP
+\fB-0 --null \fR
+Use the ASCII zero character to separate field values,
+instead of a new line.  This is useful for scripts, since
+a new line can theoretically appear inside a field.
+.TP
+\fB-a -d -l -p -n \fR
+These are shortcuts for author,
+description,
+license\&.  param and
+filename respectively, to ease the
+transition from the old modutils
+\fBmodinfo\fR\&.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+This version of \fBmodinfo\fR is for kernel
+modules 2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a
+kernel with support for old-style modules, it will attempt to
+run \fBmodprobe.old\fR in its place, so it is
+completely transparent to the user.
+.PP
+Note that the output of this version of
+\fBmodinfo\fR is simpler and more regular than
+the older version: scripts attempting to use the default
+output may get confused with complex fields.
+.PP
+You can force the new \fBmodinfo\fR to always
+be used, by setting the NEW_MODINFO
+environment variable.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8),
+\fBmodinfo.old\fR(8)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modprobe.8 module-init-tools-3.6/modprobe.8
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modprobe.8       1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/modprobe.8    2009-02-17 23:08:13.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "MODPROBE" "8" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+modprobe \- program to add and remove modules from the Linux Kernel
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBmodprobe\fR [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB-V\fR ] [ \fB-C \fIconfig-file\fB\fR ] [ \fB-n\fR ] [ \fB-i\fR ] [ \fB-q\fR ] [ \fB-o \fImodulename\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fImodulename\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fImodule parameters\fB\fR\fI ...\fR ]
+
+
+\fBmodprobe\fR [ \fB-r\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB-n\fR ] [ \fB-i\fR ] [ \fB\fImodulename\fB\fR\fI ...\fR ]
+
+
+\fBmodprobe\fR [ \fB-l\fR ] [ \fB-t \fIdirname\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fIwildcard\fB\fR ]
+
+
+\fBmodprobe\fR [ \fB-c\fR ]
+
+
+\fBmodprobe\fR [ \fB--dump-modversions\fR ]
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR intelligently adds or removes a
+module from the Linux kernel: note that for convenience, there
+is no difference between _ and - in module names.
+\fBmodprobe\fR looks in the module directory
+\fI/lib/modules/`uname -r`\fR for all
+the modules and other files, except for the optional
+\fI/etc/modprobe.conf\fR configuration file and
+\fI/etc/modprobe.d\fR directory
+(see \fBmodprobe.conf\fR(5)). \fBmodprobe\fR will also use module
+options specified on the kernel command line in the form of
+<module>\&.option>\&.
+.PP
+Note that this version of \fBmodprobe\fR does not
+do anything to the module itself: the work of resolving symbols
+and understanding parameters is done inside the kernel.  So
+module failure is sometimes accompanied by a kernel message: see
+\fBdmesg\fR(8)\&.
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR expects an up-to-date
+\fImodules.dep\fR file, as generated by
+\fBdepmod\fR (see \fBdepmod\fR(8)).  This file lists what other modules each
+module needs (if any), and \fBmodprobe\fR uses this
+to add or remove these dependencies automatically.  See
+\fBmodules.dep\fR(5)).
+.PP
+If any arguments are given after the
+\fImodulename\fR, they are passed to the
+kernel (in addition to any options listed in the configuration
+file).
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.TP
+\fB-v --verbose \fR
+Print messages about what the program is doing.  Usually
+\fBmodprobe\fR only prints messages if
+something goes wrong.
+
+This option is passed through \fBinstall\fR
+or \fBremove\fR commands to other
+\fBmodprobe\fR commands in the
+MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable.
+.TP
+\fB-C --config \fR
+This option overrides the default configuration file
+(\fI/etc/modprobe.conf\fR or 
+\fI/etc/modprobe.d/\fR if that isn't found).
+
+This option is passed through \fBinstall\fR
+or \fBremove\fR commands to other
+\fBmodprobe\fR commands in the
+MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable.
+.TP
+\fB-c --showconfig \fR
+Dump out the configuration file and exit.
+.TP
+\fB-n --dry-run \fR
+This option does everything but actually insert or
+delete the modules (or run the install or remove
+commands).  Combined with \fB-v\fR, it is
+useful for debugging problems.
+.TP
+\fB-i --ignore-install --ignore-remove \fR
+This option causes \fBmodprobe\fR to
+ignore \fBinstall\fR and
+\fBremove\fR commands in the
+configuration file (if any), for the module on the
+command line (any dependent modules are still subject
+to commands set for them in the configuration file).
+See \fBmodprobe.conf\fR(5)\&.
+.TP
+\fB-q --quiet \fR
+Normally \fBmodprobe\fR will report an error
+if you try to remove or insert a module it can't find (and
+isn't an alias or
+\fBinstall\fR/\fBremove\fR
+command).  With this flag, \fBmodprobe\fR
+will simply ignore any bogus names (the kernel uses this
+to opportunistically probe for modules which might exist).
+.TP
+\fB-r --remove \fR
+This option causes \fBmodprobe\fR to remove,
+rather than insert a module.  If the modules it depends on
+are also unused, \fBmodprobe\fR will try to
+remove them, too.  Unlike insertion, more than one module
+can be specified on the command line (it does not make
+sense to specify module parameters when removing modules).
+
+There is usually no reason to remove modules, but some
+buggy modules require it.  Your kernel may not support
+removal of modules.
+.TP
+\fB-w --wait \fR
+This option is applicable only with the -r or --remove option.
+It causes modprobe to block in the kernel (within the kernel
+module handling code itself) waiting for the specified modules'
+reference count to reach zero. Default operation is for modprobe
+to operate like rmmod, which exits with EWOULDBLOCK if the
+modules reference count is non-zero.
+.TP
+\fB-V --version \fR
+Show version of program, and exit.  See below for caveats when run on older kernels.
+.TP
+\fB-f --force \fR
+Try to strip any versioning information from the module,
+which might otherwise stop it from loading: this is the
+same as using both \fB--force-vermagic\fR and
+\fB--force-modversion\fR\&.  Naturally, these
+checks are there for your protection, so using this option
+is dangerous.
+
+This applies to any modules inserted: both the module (or
+alias) on the command line, and any modules it depends on.
+.TP
+\fB--force-vermagic \fR
+Every module contains a small string containing important
+information, such as the kernel and compiler versions.  If
+a module fails to load and the kernel complains that the
+"version magic" doesn't match, you can use this option to
+remove it.  Naturally, this check is there for your
+protection, so this using option is dangerous.
+
+This applies to any modules inserted: both the module (or
+alias) on the command line, and any modules it depends on.
+.TP
+\fB--force-modversion \fR
+When modules are compiled with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS set, a
+section is created detailing the versions of every
+interface used by (or supplied by) the module.  If a
+module fails to load and the kernel complains that the
+module disagrees about a version of some interface, you
+can use "--force-modversion" to remove the version
+information altogether.  Naturally, this check is there
+for your protection, so using this option is dangerous.
+
+This applies any modules inserted: both the module (or
+alias) on the command line, and any modules it depends on.
+.TP
+\fB-l --list \fR
+List all modules matching the given wildcard (or "*"
+if no wildcard is given).  This option is provided for
+backwards compatibility: see
+\fBfind\fR(1) and
+\fBbasename\fR(1) for a more flexible alternative.
+.TP
+\fB-a --all \fR
+Insert all module names on the command line.
+.TP
+\fB-t --type \fR
+Restrict \fB-l\fR to modules
+in directories matching the
+\fIdirname\fR given.  This option
+is provided for backwards compatibility: see
+\fBfind\fR(1)
+and
+\fBbasename\fR(1) or a more flexible alternative.
+.TP
+\fB-s --syslog \fR
+This option causes any error messages to go through the
+syslog mechanism (as LOG_DAEMON with level LOG_NOTICE)
+rather than to standard error.  This is also automatically
+enabled when stderr is unavailable.
+
+This option is passed through \fBinstall\fR
+or \fBremove\fR commands to other
+\fBmodprobe\fR commands in the
+MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable.
+.TP
+\fB--set-version \fR
+Set the kernel version, rather than using
+\fBuname\fR(2) to decide on the kernel version (which dictates where to
+find the modules).  This also disables backwards
+compatibility checks (so 
+\fBmodprobe.old\fR(8) will never be run).
+.TP
+\fB--show-depends \fR
+List the dependencies of a module (or alias), including
+the module itself.  This produces a (possibly empty) set
+of module filenames, one per line, each starting with
+"insmod".  Install commands which apply are shown prefixed by
+"install".  It does not run any of the install commands.  Note that
+\fBmodinfo\fR(8)
+can be used to extract dependencies of a module from the
+module itself, but knows nothing of aliases or install commands.
+.TP
+\fB-o --name \fR
+This option tries to rename the module which is being
+inserted into the kernel.  Some testing modules can
+usefully be inserted multiple times, but the kernel
+refuses to have two modules of the same name.  Normally,
+modules should not require multiple insertions, as that
+would make them useless if there were no module support.
+.TP
+\fB--first-time \fR
+Normally, \fBmodprobe\fR will succeed (and do
+nothing) if told to insert a module which is already
+present, or remove a module which isn't present.  This is
+backwards compatible with the modutils, and ideal for
+simple scripts.  However, more complicated scripts often
+want to know whether \fBmodprobe\fR really
+did something: this option makes modprobe fail for that
+case.
+.TP
+\fB--dump-modversions \fR
+Print out a list of module versioning information required by a
+module. This option is commonly used by distributions in order to
+package up a Linuxx kernel module using module versioning deps.
+.TP
+\fB--use-blacklist \fR
+This option causes \fBmodprobe\fR to apply the
+\fBblacklist\fR commands in the configuration file (if
+any) to module names as well.  It is usually used by \fBudev\fR(7)\&.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+This version of \fBmodprobe\fR is for kernels
+2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a kernel
+with support for old-style modules (for which much of the work
+was done in userspace), it will attempt to run
+\fBmodprobe.old\fR in its place, so it is
+completely transparent to the user.
+.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
+.PP
+The MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable can also be used to
+pass arguments to \fBmodprobe\fR\&.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe.conf\fR(5),
+\fBlsmod\fR(8),
+\fBmodprobe.old\fR(8)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modprobe.conf.5 module-init-tools-3.6/modprobe.conf.5
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modprobe.conf.5  1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/modprobe.conf.5       2009-02-17 23:07:54.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "MODPROBE.CONF" "5" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+modprobe.conf, modprobe.d \- Configuration file/directory for modprobe
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+Because the \fBmodprobe\fR command can add or
+remove extra more than one module, due to module dependencies,
+we need a method of specifying what options are to be used with
+those modules.  \fI/etc/modprobe.conf\fR (or, if that does not exist, all files under the \fI/etc/modprobe.d\fR directory) specifies
+those options, as required.  It can also be used to create
+convenient aliases: alternate names for a module.  Finally, it
+can override the normal \fBmodprobe\fR behavior
+altogether, for those with very special requirements (such as
+inserting more than one module).
+.PP
+Note that module and alias names (like other module names) can
+have - or _ in them: both are interchangable throughout all the
+module commands.
+.PP
+The format of \fImodprobe.conf\fR and files under \fImodprobe.d\fR is simple: one
+command per line, with blank lines and lines starting with #
+ignored (useful for adding comments).  A \\ at the end of a line
+causes it to continue on the next line, which makes the file a
+bit neater.
+.PP
+The syntax is a simplification of \fImodules.conf\fR, used in 2.4 kernels and earlier.
+.SH "COMMANDS"
+.TP
+\fBalias \fIwildcard\fB \fImodulename\fB \fR
+This allows you to give alternate names for a module.  For
+example: "alias my-mod really_long_modulename"
+means you can use "modprobe my-mod" instead of "modprobe
+really_long_modulename".  You can also use shell-style
+wildcards, so "alias my-mod* really_long_modulename"
+means that "modprobe my-mod-something" has the same
+effect.  You can't have aliases to other aliases (that
+way lies madness), but aliases can have options, which
+will be added to any other options.
+
+Note that modules can also contain their own aliases,
+which you can see using \fBmodinfo\fR\&.  These
+aliases are used as a last resort (ie. if there is no real
+module, \fBinstall\fR,
+\fBremove\fR, or \fBalias\fR
+command in the configuration).
+.TP
+\fBoptions \fImodulename\fB \fIoption...\fB \fR
+This command allows you to add options to the module
+\fImodulename\fR (which might be an
+alias) every time it is inserted into the kernel: whether
+directly (using \fBmodprobe\fR 
+\fImodulename\fR, or because the
+module being inserted depends on this module.
+
+All options are added together: they can come from an
+\fBoption\fR for the module itself, for an
+alias, and on the command line.
+.TP
+\fBinstall \fImodulename\fB \fIcommand...\fB \fR
+This is the most powerful primitive in
+\fImodprobe.conf\fR: it tells
+\fBmodprobe\fR to run your command instead of
+inserting the module in the kernel as normal.  The command
+can be any shell command: this allows you to do any kind
+of complex processing you might wish.  For example, if the
+module "fred" worked better with the module "barney"
+already installed (but it didn't depend on it, so
+\fBmodprobe\fR won't automatically load it),
+you could say "install fred /sbin/modprobe barney;
+/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install fred", which would do what
+you wanted.  Note the \fB--ignore-install\fR,
+which stops the second \fBmodprobe\fR from
+re-running the same \fBinstall\fR command.
+See also \fBremove\fR below.
+
+You can also use \fBinstall\fR to make up
+modules which don't otherwise exist.  For example:
+"install probe-ethernet /sbin/modprobe e100 ||
+/sbin/modprobe eepro100", which will try first the e100
+driver, then the eepro100 driver, when you do "modprobe
+probe-ethernet".
+
+If you use the string "$CMDLINE_OPTS" in the command, it
+will be replaced by any options specified on the modprobe
+command line.  This can be useful because users expect
+"modprobe fred opt=1" to pass the "opt=1" arg to the
+module, even if there's an install command in the
+configuration file.  So our above example becomes "install
+fred /sbin/modprobe barney; /sbin/modprobe
+--ignore-install fred $CMDLINE_OPTS"
+.TP
+\fBremove \fImodulename\fB \fIcommand...\fB \fR
+This is similar to the \fBinstall\fR command
+above, except it is invoked when "modprobe -r" is run.
+The removal counterparts to the two examples above would
+be: "remove fred /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove fred &&
+/sbin/modprobe -r barney", and "remove probe-ethernet
+/sbin/modprobe -r eepro100 || /sbin/modprobe -r e100".
+.TP
+\fBinclude \fIfilename\fB \fR
+Using this command, you can include other configuration
+files, or whole directories, which is occasionally useful.  Note that aliases in
+the included file will override aliases previously
+declared in the current file.
+.TP
+\fBblacklist \fImodulename\fB \fR
+Modules can contain their own aliases: usually these are
+aliases describing the devices they support, such as
+"pci:123...".  These "internal" aliases can be overridden
+by normal "alias" keywords, but there are cases where two
+or more modules both support the same devices, or a module
+invalidly claims to support a device: the
+\fBblacklist\fR keyword indicates that all of
+that particular module's internal aliases are to be ignored.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+There is a \fBgenerate_modprobe.conf\fR program
+which should do a reasonable job of generating
+\fImodprobe.conf\fR from your current (2.4 or
+2.2) modules setup.
+.PP
+Although the syntax is similar to the older
+\fI/etc/modules.conf\fR, there are many features
+missing.  There are two reasons for this: firstly, install and
+remove commands can do just about anything, and secondly, the
+module-init-tools modprobe is designed to be simple enough that
+it can be easily replaced.
+.PP
+With the complexity of actual module insertion reduced to three
+system calls (open, read, init_module), and the
+\fImodules.dep\fR file being simple and open,
+producing a more powerful modprobe variant can be done
+independently if there is a need.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2004, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8),
+\fBmodules.dep\fR(5)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modules.dep.5 module-init-tools-3.6/modules.dep.5
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/modules.dep.5    1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/modules.dep.5 2009-02-17 23:07:56.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "MODULES.DEP" "5" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+modules.dep \- List of module dependencies
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+The \fImodules.dep\fR as generated by
+module-init-tools \fBdepmod\fR, lists the
+dependencies for every module in the directories under
+\fI/lib/modules/\fR\fIversion\fR,
+where \fImodules.dep\fR is.
+.PP
+Blank lines, and lines starting with a '#' (ignoring spaces) are
+ignored.  Other lines are of the form "filename: [filename]*",
+listing the complete dependencies for the first filename in
+descending order.
+.PP
+For example, if
+\fI/lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/a.ko\fR depended on
+\fIb.ko\fR and \fIc.ko\fR in the
+same directory, and \fIc.ko\fR depended on
+\fIb.ko\fR as well, the file might look like:
+
+.nf
+# This is a comment.
+/lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/a.ko: /lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/c.ko /lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/b.ko
+/lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/b.ko:
+/lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/c.ko: /lib/modules/2.5.53/kernel/b.ko
+    
+.fi
+.PP
+This file is used by \fBmodprobe\fR to know the
+order to load modules (they are loaded right to left, and
+removed left to right).
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8)
diff -Naur module-init-tools-3.6.orig/rmmod.8 module-init-tools-3.6/rmmod.8
--- module-init-tools-3.6.orig/rmmod.8  1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
+++ module-init-tools-3.6/rmmod.8       2009-02-17 23:08:10.000000000 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man 
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/> 
+.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, 
+.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
+.TH "RMMOD" "8" "17 February 2009" "" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+rmmod \- simple program to remove a module from the Linux Kernel
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBrmmod\fR [ \fB-f\fR ] [ \fB-w\fR ] [ \fB-s\fR ] [ \fB-v\fR ] [ \fB\fImodulename\fB\fR ]
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.PP
+\fBrmmod\fR is a trivial program to remove a
+module from the kernel.  Most users will want to use
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8) instead, with the \fB-r\fR option.
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.TP
+\fB-v --verbose \fR
+Print messages about what the program is doing.
+Usually \fBrmmod\fR only prints messages
+if something goes wrong.
+.TP
+\fB-f --force \fR
+This option can be extremely dangerous: it has no effect unless
+CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD was set when the kernel was
+compiled.  With this option, you can remove modules which are
+being used, or which are not designed to be removed, or have
+been marked as unsafe (see \fBlsmod\fR(8)).
+.TP
+\fB-w --wait \fR
+Normally, \fBrmmod\fR will refuse to
+unload modules which are in use.  With this option,
+\fBrmmod\fR will isolate the module, and
+wait until the module is no longer used.  Noone new
+will be able to use the module, but it's up to you to
+make sure the current users eventually finish with it.
+See \fBlsmod\fR(8)) for information on usage counts.
+.TP
+\fB-s --syslog \fR
+Send errors to the syslog, instead of standard error.
+.TP
+\fB-V --version \fR
+Show version of program, and exit.  See below for caveats
+when run on older kernels.
+.SH "BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY"
+.PP
+This version of \fBrmmod\fR is for kernels
+2.5.48 and above.  If it detects a kernel
+with support for old-style modules (for which much of the work
+was done in userspace), it will attempt to run
+\fBrmmod.old\fR in its place, so it is completely
+transparent to the user.
+.SH "COPYRIGHT"
+.PP
+This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.PP
+\fBmodprobe\fR(8),
+\fBinsmod\fR(8),
+\fBlsmod\fR(8),
+\fBrmmod.old\fR(8)