Modprobe and Insmod

[Alexander Dalloz]

Kaushal Shriyan schrieb:

> Thanks for the quick turnaround
> so the steps as what you mentioned are as below
>
> #depmod

`depmod -a' has only to be run once when at least 1 new module was added 
to the existing kernel modules tree, not every time prior to using 
modprobe. That regenerates the /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep list 
file.

> #modprobe test (if test is the name of the module)

Correct, no .ko suffix.

> Correct me if I am wrong
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Kaushal

Alexander