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oe-classic OpenEmbedded
Name module-init-tools kmod (Replaced) verified
Version 3.12 33
Summary Tools for managing Linux kernel modules
Description This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.48 and above). It serves the same function that the modutils package serves for Linux 2.4. kmod is a set of tools to handle common tasks with Linux kernel modules like insert, remove, list, check properties, resolve dependencies and aliases.
Section base base
License GPLv2 GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later
Homepage http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/
Package/recipe file recipes/module-init-tools/module-init-tools_3.12.bb recipes-kernel/kmod/kmod_33.bb
Origin openembedded-core (master branch)
Extra links

Sources

oe-classic OpenEmbedded
None
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git

Patches

oe-classic OpenEmbedded
None
Patch Status
kmod/avoid_parallel_tests.patch Inappropriate (disable feature incompatible with ptest)
kmod/gtkdocdir.patch Submitted [https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20231208224511.1363066-1-ross.burton@arm.com/T/#u]

configure options

oe-classic OpenEmbedded
-Ddocs=false