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d4mo
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:54 pm Post subject: See what is pulling in a module?

Is there anyway to see why a particular module is loaded?

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V-Li
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:55 am Post subject:

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Does

Code:

dmesg|grep <modulename>

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d2_racing
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject:

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And if it's hardware related, you can use this :

Code:

# lspci -kvm
# find /usr/src/kernel-version -name Makefile | xargs grep -i module_name

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desultory
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:28 am Post subject:

If you are just looking for intermodule dependency information, lsmod.

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