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UPDATE-MODULES
!!!UPDATE-MODULES
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR
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!!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/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/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__(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:


__*$__


(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/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


depmod(1) __modules.conf__(5) modprobe(8)
chandev(8),
!!BUGS


None of course! :)
!!AUTHOR


This manual page was written by Wichert Akkerman
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