MODULES.DEP(5)                                                                                                    MODULES.DEP(5)



NAME
       modules.dep - List of module dependencies

DESCRIPTION
       The  modules.dep  as  generated  by  module-init-tools depmod, lists the dependencies for every module in the directories
       under /lib/modules/version, where modules.dep is.

       Blank lines, and lines starting with a '#' (ignoring spaces) are ignored. Other lines are of the form  "filename:  [file-
       name]*", listing the complete dependencies for the first filename in descending order.

       For  example,  if  /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/a.ko  depended on b.ko and c.ko in the same directory, and c.ko depended on
       b.ko as well, the file might look like:

       # This is a comment.
       /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/a.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/c.ko /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/b.ko
       /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/b.ko:
       /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/c.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.29/kernel/b.ko



       This file is used by modprobe to know the order in which to load modules (they are loaded right to left, and removed left
       to right).

COPYRIGHT
       This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

SEE ALSO
       depmod(8), modprobe(8)



                                                           2002-12-27                                             MODULES.DEP(5)