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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition
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Mastering Embedded Linux Programming - Second Edition

by Chris Simmonds
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Loading kernel modules

You can load, unload, and list modules using the simple insmod, lsmod, and rmmod commands. Here they are shown loading the dummy driver:

# insmod /lib/modules/4.8.12-yocto-standard/kernel/drivers/dummy.ko# lsmod Tainted: Gdummy 2062 0 - Live 0xbf004000 (O)# rmmod dummy

If the module is placed in a subdirectory in /lib/modules/<kernel release> , you can create a modules dependency database using the command, depmod -a:

# depmod -a# ls /lib/modules/4.8.12-yocto-standardkernel   modules.alias   modules.dep   modules.symbols

The information in the module.* files is used by the modprobe command to locate a module by name rather than the full path. modprobe has many other features, which are described on the manual page modprobe(8) ...

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ISBN: 9781787283282