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2# For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3# see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
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5
Glenn L McGrath1b6dfa72003-03-30 13:57:26 +00006menu "Linux Module Utilities"
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +00007
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +00008config MODPROBE_SMALL
9 bool "Simplified modutils"
10 default n
11 help
12 Simplified modutils.
13
Denis Vlasenko0e2c93f2008-07-10 14:16:11 +000014 With this option modprobe does not require modules.dep file
15 and does not use /etc/modules.conf file.
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000016 It scans module files in /lib/modules/`uname -r` and
17 determines dependencies and module alias names on the fly.
18 This may make module loading slower, most notably
19 when one needs to load module by alias (this requires
20 scanning through module _bodies_).
21
Denis Vlasenko0e2c93f2008-07-10 14:16:11 +000022 At the first attempt to load a module by alias modprobe
23 will try to generate modules.dep.bb file in order to speed up
24 future loads by alias. Failure to do so (read-only /lib/modules,
25 etc) is not reported, and future modprobes will be slow too.
26
27 NB: modules.dep.bb file format is not compatible
28 with modules.dep file as created/used by standard module tools.
29
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000030 Additional module parameters can be stored in
31 /etc/modules/$module_name files.
32
33 Apart from modprobe, other utilities are also provided:
34 - insmod is an alias to modprobe
35 - rmmod is an alias to modprobe -r
Denis Vlasenko0e2c93f2008-07-10 14:16:11 +000036 - depmod generates modules.dep.bb
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000037
Denis Vlasenko3e8fd182008-07-10 23:42:36 +000038 As of 2008-07, this code is experimental. It is 14kb smaller
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000039 than "non-small" modutils.
40
41config FEATURE_MODPROBE_SMALL_OPTIONS_ON_CMDLINE
Denis Vlasenkof62ab2d2008-07-09 09:50:33 +000042 bool "Accept module options on modprobe command line"
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000043 default n
44 depends on MODPROBE_SMALL
45 help
46 Allow insmod and modprobe take module options from command line.
47 N.B. Very bloaty.
48
49config FEATURE_MODPROBE_SMALL_CHECK_ALREADY_LOADED
50 bool "Skip loading of already loaded modules"
51 default n
52 depends on MODPROBE_SMALL
53 help
54 Check if the module is already loaded.
55 N.B. It's racy.
56
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000057config INSMOD
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000058 bool "insmod"
59 default n
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000060 depends on !MODPROBE_SMALL
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000061 help
Eric Andersene5642112003-07-14 19:37:08 +000062 insmod is used to load specified modules in the running kernel.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000063
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000064config RMMOD
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +000065 bool "rmmod"
66 default n
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000067 depends on !MODPROBE_SMALL
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +000068 help
69 rmmod is used to unload specified modules from the kernel.
70
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000071config LSMOD
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000072 bool "lsmod"
73 default n
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000074 depends on !MODPROBE_SMALL
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000075 help
Eric Andersen65e20a32003-07-05 07:52:35 +000076 lsmod is used to display a list of loaded modules.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000077
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000078config FEATURE_LSMOD_PRETTY_2_6_OUTPUT
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +000079 bool "Pretty output"
Rob Landley15d3f7f2005-05-04 00:25:49 +000080 default n
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000081 depends on LSMOD
Rob Landley15d3f7f2005-05-04 00:25:49 +000082 help
Tim Rikerc1ef7bd2006-01-25 00:08:53 +000083 This option makes output format of lsmod adjusted to
Rob Landley4f653602005-05-04 23:55:06 +000084 the format of module-init-tools for Linux kernel 2.6.
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +000085 Increases size somewhat.
Rob Landley15d3f7f2005-05-04 00:25:49 +000086
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +000087config MODPROBE
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000088 bool "modprobe"
89 default n
Denis Vlasenko671691c2008-07-04 10:25:44 +000090 depends on !MODPROBE_SMALL
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000091 help
Mike Frysingerfa6c4842006-05-26 01:48:17 +000092 Handle the loading of modules, and their dependencies on a high
Eric Andersene5642112003-07-14 19:37:08 +000093 level.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +000094
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +000095 Note that in the state, modprobe does not understand multiple
96 module options from the configuration file. See option below.
Rob Landley79e1cab2005-11-15 00:08:29 +000097
Denis Vlasenko9ddc8d52008-05-18 14:39:43 +000098config FEATURE_MODPROBE_BLACKLIST
99 bool
100 prompt "Blacklist support"
101 default n
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000102 depends on MODPROBE
Denis Vlasenko9ddc8d52008-05-18 14:39:43 +0000103 help
Denis Vlasenkof45c4f42008-06-16 04:09:25 +0000104 Say 'y' here to enable support for the 'blacklist' command in
105 modprobe.conf. This prevents the alias resolver to resolve
106 blacklisted modules. This is useful if you want to prevent your
107 hardware autodetection scripts to load modules like evdev, frame
Denis Vlasenko9ddc8d52008-05-18 14:39:43 +0000108 buffer drivers etc.
109
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000110config DEPMOD
111 bool "depmod"
112 default n
113 depends on !MODPROBE_SMALL
114 help
115 depmod generates modules.dep (and potentially modules.alias
116 and modules.symbols) that contain dependency information
117 for modprobe.
118
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000119comment "Options common to multiple modutils"
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000120
121config FEATURE_2_4_MODULES
122 bool "Support version 2.2/2.4 Linux kernels"
123 default n
124 depends on INSMOD || RMMOD || LSMOD
125 help
126 Support module loading for 2.2.x and 2.4.x Linux kernels.
127 This increases size considerably. Say N unless you plan
128 to run ancient kernels.
129
130config FEATURE_INSMOD_VERSION_CHECKING
131 bool "Enable module version checking"
132 default n
133 depends on FEATURE_2_4_MODULES && (INSMOD || MODPROBE)
134 help
135 Support checking of versions for modules. This is used to
136 ensure that the kernel and module are made for each other.
137
138config FEATURE_INSMOD_KSYMOOPS_SYMBOLS
139 bool "Add module symbols to kernel symbol table"
140 default n
141 depends on FEATURE_2_4_MODULES && (INSMOD || MODPROBE)
142 help
143 By adding module symbols to the kernel symbol table, Oops messages
144 occuring within kernel modules can be properly debugged. By enabling
145 this feature, module symbols will always be added to the kernel symbol
146 table for properly debugging support. If you are not interested in
147 Oops messages from kernel modules, say N.
148
149config FEATURE_INSMOD_LOADINKMEM
150 bool "In kernel memory optimization (uClinux only)"
151 default n
152 depends on FEATURE_2_4_MODULES && (INSMOD || MODPROBE)
153 help
154 This is a special uClinux only memory optimization that lets insmod
155 load the specified kernel module directly into kernel space, reducing
156 memory usage by preventing the need for two copies of the module
157 being loaded into memory.
158
159config FEATURE_INSMOD_LOAD_MAP
160 bool "Enable insmod load map (-m) option"
161 default n
162 depends on FEATURE_2_4_MODULES && INSMOD
163 help
164 Enabling this, one would be able to get a load map
165 output on stdout. This makes kernel module debugging
166 easier.
167 If you don't plan to debug kernel modules, you
168 don't need this option.
169
170config FEATURE_INSMOD_LOAD_MAP_FULL
171 bool "Symbols in load map"
172 default y
173 depends on FEATURE_INSMOD_LOAD_MAP && !MODPROBE_SMALL
174 help
175 Without this option, -m will only output section
176 load map. With this option, -m will also output
177 symbols load map.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000178
Denis Vlasenko7d219aa2006-10-05 10:17:08 +0000179config FEATURE_CHECK_TAINTED_MODULE
Rob Landley2ec922e2006-04-13 23:22:16 +0000180 bool "Support tainted module checking with new kernels"
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000181 default y
Denis Vlasenkoe35af562009-01-31 14:22:24 +0000182 depends on (LSMOD || FEATURE_2_4_MODULES) && !MODPROBE_SMALL
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000183 help
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3e8669f2008-07-22 18:27:53 +0000184 Support checking for tainted modules. These are usually binary
Eric Andersen9c3c38d2003-07-22 09:59:34 +0000185 only modules that will make the linux-kernel list ignore your
186 support request.
Glenn L McGrath759d7ec2003-09-03 00:42:58 +0000187 This option is required to support GPLONLY modules.
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000188
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000189config FEATURE_MODUTILS_ALIAS
190 bool "Support for module.aliases file"
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000191 default y
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000192 depends on DEPMOD || MODPROBE
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000193 help
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000194 Generate and parse modules.alias containing aliases for bus
195 identifiers:
196 alias pcmcia:m*c*f03fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd* parport_cs
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000197
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000198 and aliases for logical modules names e.g.:
199 alias padlock_aes aes
200 alias aes_i586 aes
201 alias aes_generic aes
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer94748302008-05-27 08:41:32 +0000202
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000203 Say Y if unsure.
204
205config FEATURE_MODUTILS_SYMBOLS
206 bool "Support for module.symbols file"
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000207 default y
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000208 depends on DEPMOD || MODPROBE
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000209 help
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000210 Generate and parse modules.symbols containing aliases for
211 symbol_request() kernel calls, such as:
212 alias symbol:usb_sg_init usbcore
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000213
Denis Vlasenkoba1315d2008-09-13 14:59:38 +0000214 Say Y if unsure.
Rob Landley762bb622005-12-11 20:20:05 +0000215
Denis Vlasenkoe35af562009-01-31 14:22:24 +0000216config DEFAULT_MODULES_DIR
217 string "Default directory containing modules"
218 default "/lib/modules"
219 depends on DEPMOD || MODPROBE || MODPROBE_SMALL
220 help
221 Directory that contains kernel modules.
222 Defaults to "/lib/modules"
223
224config DEFAULT_DEPMOD_FILE
225 string "Default name of modules.dep"
226 default "modules.dep"
227 depends on DEPMOD || MODPROBE || MODPROBE_SMALL
228 help
229 Filename that contains kernel modules dependencies.
230 Defaults to "modules.dep"
231
Eric Andersenc9f20d92002-12-05 08:41:41 +0000232endmenu