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DEPMOD.D(5) depmod.d DEPMOD.D(5)
depmod.d - Configuration directory for depmod
/lib/depmod.d/*.conf
/usr/lib/depmod.d/*.conf
/usr/local/lib/depmod.d/*.conf
/run/depmod.d/*.conf
/etc/depmod.d/*.conf
The order in which modules are processed by the depmod command
can be altered on a global or per-module basis. This is typically
useful in cases where built-in kernel modules are complemented by
custom built versions of the same and the user wishes to affect
the priority of processing in order to override the module
version supplied by the kernel.
The format of files under depmod.d is simple: one command per
line, with blank lines and lines starting with '#' ignored
(useful for adding comments). A '\' at the end of a line causes
it to continue on the next line, which makes the files a bit
neater.
search subdirectory...
This allows you to specify the order in which /lib/modules
(or other configured module location) subdirectories will be
processed by depmod. Directories are listed in order, with
the highest priority given to the first listed directory and
the lowest priority given to the last directory listed. The
special keyword built-in refers to the standard module
directories installed by the kernel. Another special keyword
external refers to the list of external directories, defined
by the external command.
By default, depmod will give a higher priority to a directory
with the name updates using this built-in search string:
"updates built-in" but more complex arrangements are possible
and are used in several popular distributions.
override modulename kernelversion modulesubdirectory
This command allows you to override which version of a
specific module will be used when more than one module
sharing the same name is processed by the depmod command. It
is possible to specify one kernel or all kernels using the *
wildcard. modulesubdirectory is the name of the subdirectory
under /lib/modules (or other module location) where the
target module is installed.
For example, it is possible to override the priority of an
updated test module called kmod by specifying the following
command: "override kmod * extra". This will ensure that any
matching module name installed under the extra subdirectory
within /lib/modules (or other module location) will take
priority over any likenamed module already provided by the
kernel.
external kernelversion absolutemodulesdirectory...
This specifies a list of directories, which will be checked
according to the priorities in the search command. The order
matters also, the first directory has the higher priority.
The kernelversion is a POSIX regular expression or *
wildcard, like in the override.
exclude excludedir
This specifies the trailing directories that will be excluded
during the search for kernel modules.
The excludedir is the trailing directory to exclude
This manual page Copyright 2006-2010, Jon Masters, Red Hat, Inc.
depmod(8)
Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
Developer
Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com>
Developer
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Developer
This page is part of the kmod (userspace tools for managing
kernel modules) project. Information about the project can be
found at [unknown -- if you know, please contact man-
pages@man7.org] If you have a bug report for this manual page,
send it to linux-modules@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git⟩ on
2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
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