UPDATE-MODULES(S)                               UPDATE-MODULES(S)



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

SYNOPSIS
       update-modules [force]

DESCRIPTION
       update-modules  is  a  simple  tool  to  manage  /etc/mod-
       ules.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 con-
       figuration 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/modutils/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/modules.conf.old or /etc/chandev.conf.old.

FILES
       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(f).  Files with the suffix  .chandev  con-
       tain  the module options, as described in chandev(v).  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
       force  update-modules   check  if  the  current  /etc/mod-
              ules.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
       depmod(d) modules.conf(f) modprobe(e) chandev(v),

BUGS
       None of course! :)

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was  written   by   Wichert   Akkerman
       <wakkerma@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.



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