From: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 05:46:27 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: man: clarify the support to modules.dep file
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man: clarify the support to modules.dep file
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diff --git a/man/modprobe.xml b/man/modprobe.xml
index 4c6c8329..9cb44761 100644
--- a/man/modprobe.xml
+++ b/man/modprobe.xml
@@ -101,8 +101,7 @@
     </para>
     <para>
       <command>modprobe</command> expects an up-to-date
-      <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> file (or fallback human
-      readable <filename>modules.dep</filename> file), as generated
+      <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> file as generated
       by the corresponding <command>depmod</command> utility shipped
       along with <command>modprobe</command> (see
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>depmod</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
diff --git a/man/modules.dep.xml b/man/modules.dep.xml
index 034c2b49..e53293a1 100644
--- a/man/modules.dep.xml
+++ b/man/modules.dep.xml
@@ -40,16 +40,17 @@
 
   <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
     <para>
-      The <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> as generated by
-      module-init-tools <command>depmod</command>, lists the dependencies for
+      <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> is a binary file generated by
+      <command>depmod</command> listing the dependencies for
       every module in the directories under
-      <filename>/lib/modules/</filename><replaceable>version</replaceable>,
-      where <filename>modules.dep.bin</filename> (or the human readable version
-      <filename>modules.dep</filename>) is also located. It is used by
-      utilities such as <command>modprobe</command>. The binary version will be
-      used by default, if it was generated by a compatible version of
-      <command>depmod</command>, with fallback to the generic
-      <filename>modules.dep</filename>.
+      <filename>/lib/modules/</filename><replaceable>version</replaceable>.
+      It is used by kmod tools such as <command>modprobe</command> and
+      libkmod.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Its text counterpar is located in the same directory with the name
+      <filename>modules.dep</filename>. The text version is maintained only
+      for easy of reading by humans and is in no way used by any kmod tool.
     </para>
     <para>
       These files are not intended for editing or use by any additional