insmod is a very low-level loader. Any text that follows the path to the .ko file is treated as module parameters and is handed to the module's initialization code. It does not attempt to resolve or load dependency modules (that is handled by modprobe), it does not copy the object file into /lib/modules, and it does not update the modules.dep database (that is generated by depmod). Therefore, the only accurate statement is that the arguments appended after the file name are passed to the module during insertion.
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