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6 insmod - Simple program to insert a module into the Linux Kernel
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9 insmod [filename] [module options...]
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12 insmod is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel. Most
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21 This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM
22 Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.
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25 modprobe(8), rmmod(8), lsmod(8), modinfo(8) depmod(8)
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