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modprobe - Wikipedia

modprobe


modprobe is a Linux program that provides for loading a loadable kernel module into a Linux kernel, unloading a loaded module, and many other related features. It provides the ability to make decisions about which modules to load, awareness of module dependencies, so that when requested to load a module, it adds other required modules first, and resolution of recursive module dependencies.

It is commonly used indirectly. For example, udev relies upon modprobe to load drivers for automatically detected hardware.

Modprobe was originally written by Rusty Russell and is distributed as part of the software package “kmod”1 (maintained by Lucas De Marchi and others). It was previously developed as:

  • “module-init-tools”,2 for Linux kernel version 2.6 and later (maintained by Jon Masters and others)
  • “modutils”3 for use with Linux versions 2.2.x and 2.4.x..

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  1. “kernel/kmod/kmod.git - kmod - module management”. ↩

  2. “Index of/Pub/Linux/Utils/Kernel/Module-init-tools”. Archived from the original on 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2008-09-22. ↩

  3. “Index of/Pub/Linux/Utils/Kernel/Modutils”. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2008-09-22. ↩

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modprobe(8) - Linux manual page
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