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. rmmod??”Unload (remove) a specified module (or more than one) from the running
kernel.
. depmod??”Creates a dependency file (/lib/modules//modules.dep)
for individual modules. Many kernel modules need other modules to load first; that
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is, they are dependent on another module to work. During the system boot, depmod
-A is run very soon after the kernel starts up to sort out the order in which modules
load. The -A switch is there so that a new dependency file is created only when
there is a change in modules.
. modprobe??”Perhaps the most used module tool, modprobe combines insmod and
rmmod. modprobe uses the dependency file created by another tool, depmod, to automatically
load or unload (with the -f switch) a module.
. modinfo??”Get a module??™s name, author, license type, and perhaps other information
from a module??™s object file??”that is, if the author included any information in the
object file. Modules contributed by SUSE engineers include information on whether
the module is officially supported.

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