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  • Committer: Scott James Remnant
  • Date: 2009-07-16 15:24:17 UTC
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        taken from standard input. Most users will want to use
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>modprobe</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum> </citerefentry> instead, which is
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        cleverer.</para>
 
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        more clever.</para>
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    <para>Only the most general of error messages are reported: as the
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        work of trying to link the module is now done inside the kernel,
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        about errors.</para>
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  </refsect1>
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  <refsect1>
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    <title>BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY</title>
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    <para>This version of <command>insmod</command> is for kernels
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        <literal>2.5.48</literal> and above.  There is no support for
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        old-style modules (for which much of the work was done in
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        userspace).</para>
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  <refsect1>
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    <title>COPYRIGHT</title>
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    <para>
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      This manual page Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.