From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Yauheni Kaliuta To: Lucas De Marchi Cc: linux-modules Subject: [PATCH] man/depmod.d: add external keyword description Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:09:52 +0300 Message-Id: <20170720140952.12944-1-yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> List-ID: The commit 'depmod: implement external directories support' added external directories support (see 7da6884e7357ac05772e90f6d7e63b1948103fc4). This patch documents the extention in the manpage. Signed-off-by: Yauheni Kaliuta --- man/depmod.d.xml | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/depmod.d.xml b/man/depmod.d.xml index c30c06c5b605..4341a568e8a0 100644 --- a/man/depmod.d.xml +++ b/man/depmod.d.xml @@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ first listed directory and the lowest priority given to the last directory listed. The special keyword built-in refers to the standard module directories installed by the kernel. + Another special keyword external refers to the + list of external directories, defined by the + external command. By default, depmod will give a higher priority to @@ -110,6 +113,23 @@ + + external kernelversion + absolutemodulesdirectory... + + + + This specifies a list of directories, which will be checked + according to the priorities in the search + command. The order matters also, the first directory has the higher + priority. + + + The kernelversion is a POSIX regular + expression or * wildcard, like in the override. + + + -- 2.14.0.rc0