October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
586 pages
14h 8m
English
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depmod utility
depmod is a tool that you run during the kernel build process to generate module dependency files. It does that by reading each module in /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/ to determine what symbols it should export and what symbols it needs. The result of that process is written to the modules.dep file and its binary version modules.dep.bin. It is a kind of module indexing.