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| author | Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com> | 2012-03-13 15:00:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2014-03-25 00:34:14 -0300 |
| commit | 3aa27ba9882651a16dfae30daad15480039261e1 (patch) | |
| tree | aa249f1b48d077afdeee950f7696f505d3a4cbf6 | |
| parent | 8a4d09336e881d1062751b0c62021ca5487a3ae0 (diff) | |
| download | kmod-3aa27ba9882651a16dfae30daad15480039261e1.tar.gz | |
python: Add README
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diff --git a/libkmod/python/README b/libkmod/python/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9498ba0 --- /dev/null +++ b/libkmod/python/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +python-kmod +=========== + +Python bindings for libkmod + +libkmod is a C library to make inserting, removing, and listing +Linux kernel modules easier. It can be found at: + +http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;a=summary + +python-kmod is a Python wrapper module for libkmod, exposing common +module operations: listing installed modules, modprobe, and rmmod. +It is at: + +https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod + +Example (python invoked as root) +-------------------------------- + +>>>import kmod + +>>>km = kmod.Kmod() + +>>>km.loaded_modules() + +[('nfs', 407706), + ('nfs_acl', 12741) + +... + + ('virtio_blk', 17549)] + +>>>km.modprobe("btrfs") + +>>>km.rmmod("btrfs") + +Building +-------- + +Ensure Python and kmod headers are installed and run: + +python setup.py build + + |