modutils for Debian GNU/Linux
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In the 2.3 and later kernel series a couple of things have changed: 
* a list of kernel symbols is now kept in /var/log/ksymoops. 
* support for kerneld has been removed from the modutils package.

About (machine-dependent) conf.modules:
Different architectures and machine types can have different drivers
in the kernel, and thus have different modules available. Since
version 2.1.85-6, modutils has support for this. This support has been
redone in 2.1.85-12 when update-modules was introduced. See the
manpage for update-modules for all the information.

If you are using 2.6 kernels, you need to install the module-init-tools
package, modutils is not for you, see Documentation/Changes
in the 2.6 kernel tree.  Some other distributions merge modutils
and module-init-tools into a single package and call it modutils, however,
in Debian, we have a modutils package (for < 2.5 kernels) and a 
module-init-tools package (for >2.5 kernels).

LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org> Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:38:16 -0600
