What’s the difference between insmod and modprobe commands to load a kernel module ?
What’s the difference between insmod and modprobe commands to load a kernel module ?
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you will get detailed answer for this question from this link http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/lkmpg.pdf
The main difference between these two is that modprobe checks the dependencies of the driver module and then load the module into the kernel and insmod just insert the driver without checking the dependencies .