NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       update-modules - (re)generate /etc/modules.conf and /etc/chandev.conf

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       update-modules [force]

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       update-modules  is  a  simple  tool  to	manage	/etc/modules.conf  and
       /etc/chandev.conf for the s390 architecture.  The Linux	module	utilities
 use one configuration file for all their configuration. This makes
       it hard for packages to dynamically add	information  about  their  own
       modules. To fix this update-modules has been introduced.

       update-modules  attempts  to  fix  this by generating the configuration
       file from seperate files which are located in /etc/modutils.  All files
       in  that directory are assembled together to form /etc/modules.conf and
       /etc/chandev.conf.  There is also a  special  subdirectory  (/etc/modu-
       tils/arch)   which  contains  information  for  special	architectures.
       update-modules determines the architecture and selects  which  file  it
       must use.

       After  generation  a  backup  of  the  old  file  is  put  in /etc/mod-
       ules.conf.old or /etc/chandev.conf.old.

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

       There are two types of file you can put in /etc/modutils: normal  files
       and  exectuable files. Normal files contain standard modules configuration
 information, as described in modules.conf(5).  Files with the suffix
  .chandev  contain  the module options, as described in chandev(8).
       The special file 0chandev.chandev contains  the	channel  device  layer
       specific  options.   Executable	files are executed and their output is
       used as extra configuration information. Error messages sent to	stderr
       are not redirected.

       update-modules  will  ignore  files  that  match  the following regular
       expression:
	      *\(\.dpkg-[a-z]*\|~\)$
       (ie  files  with  the  extension  .dpkg-new,  .dpkg-orig,   .dpkg-dist,
       .dpkg-old, or whose filename end with a ~).

OPTIONS    [Toc]    [Back]

       force  update-modules   check  if  the  current	/etc/modules.conf  and
	      /etc/chandev.conf are generated files by checking for a  special
	      tag  on  the  first line. If this tag is not found generation is
	      aborted. By supplying force  as  parameter  only	a  warning  is
	      printed.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       depmod(1) modules.conf(5) modprobe(8) chandev(8),

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

       None of course! :)

AUTHOR    [Toc]    [Back]

       This  manual page was written by Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system.



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