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UPDATE-MODULES !!!UPDATE-MODULES NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FILES OPTIONS SEE ALSO BUGS AUTHOR ---- !!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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