Concept of modprobe and module dependancies

Question

As modprobe looks through modules.dep for dependancies,is it necessary to execute depmod before modprobe?plz help me with module inserting process

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/11/modprobe-command-examples/ — Jeyaram, Aug 06 '15 at 14:25
@Jeyaram When the kernel needs a feature that is not resident in the kernel, the kernel module daemon kmod execs modprobe to load the module in but in that ex why modprobe was executed by user? — sonny, Aug 06 '15 at 14:40
If the user don't have idea about dependency for particular kernel module. — Jeyaram, Aug 06 '15 at 16:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '15 at 09:21

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It is necessary to execute depmod whenever the dependecies (might) have changed.

Usually, depmod is executed automatically when new modules are installed.

answered Aug 07 '15 at 09:21

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