Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc

> if you depmod -a, will that cause any modules to be loaded.
> How does depmod -a effect the running Linux system. What does
> depmod actually do?

depmod will create a dependency file about the modules. For example, in order to load a soundblaster driver, you need to load soundcore.o first. This is what depmod does. As far as I know it doesn't un/load any modules. It merely writes /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep which is the dependency file.

Take a look at depmod's and insmod's man page.

Also, as someone else said, just unload a module, edit /etc/modules.conf, and reload the module.

Vilmos

documented on: 2000.11.24 Fri 00:01:32