[deployment-guide/comm-rel-14: 652/677] KernelModules: fix minor intro prob from Tech Review
Jaromir Hradilek
jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Sun Nov 14 23:57:14 UTC 2010
commit 1cb5a0871e120719b2ec9dc1596edb1242e9717d
Author: Douglas Silas <dhensley at redhat.com>
Date: Fri Nov 5 17:12:57 2010 +0100
KernelModules: fix minor intro prob from Tech Review
en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml | 10 +++++-----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml b/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml
index 85649f3..43e4e6f 100644
--- a/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml
+++ b/en-US/Working_with_Kernel_Modules.xml
@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@
<primary>drivers</primary>
<see>kernel module</see>
</indexterm>
- <para>The Linux kernel is modular, which means it can extend its capabilities through the use of dynamically loaded <firstterm>kernel modules</firstterm>. Kernel modules can provide:</para>
+ <para>The Linux kernel is modular, which means it can extend its capabilities through the use of dynamically-loaded <firstterm>kernel modules</firstterm>. A Kernel module can provide:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>device drivers which add support for new hardware;</para>
+ <para>a device driver which adds support for new hardware;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>file systems such as <systemitem
- class="filesystem">ext4</systemitem> and <systemitem
+ <para>support for a file system such as <systemitem
+ class="filesystem">btrfs</systemitem> or<systemitem
class="filesystem">NFS</systemitem>; or,</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>new system calls.</para>
+ <para>a way to intercept and change the implementation of system calls.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Like the kernel itself, modules can take parameters that customize their behavior, though the default parameters work well in most cases. User-space tools can list the modules currently loaded into a running kernel; query all available modules for available parameters and module-specific information; and load or unload (remove) modules dynamically into or from a running kernel. Many of these utilities, which are provided by the <package>module-init-tools</package> package, take module dependencies into account when performing operations so that manual dependency-tracking is rarely necessary.</para>
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