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MODINFO
Section: modinfo (8) Updated: 202-0-13 Index
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NAME
modinfo- Show information about a Linux Kernel module
SYNOPSIS
modinfo [-0] [-F field] [-k kernel] [modulename|filename...]
modinfo -V
modinfo -h
DESCRIPTION
modinfo extracts information from the Linux Kernel modules given on the
command line. If the module name is not a filename, then the /lib/modules/
version directory is searched, as is also done by modprobe(8) when loading
kernel modules.
modinfo by default lists each attribute of the module in form fieldname :
value, for easy reading. The filename is listed the same way (although it's
not really an attribute).
This version of modinfo can understand modules of any Linux Kernel
architecture.
OPTIONS
-V, -version
-
Print the modinfo version.
-F field, -field= field
-
Only print this field value, one per line. This is most useful for
scripts. Field names are cas-insensitive. Common fields (which may not
be in every module) include author, description, license, parm, depends,
and alias. There are often multiple parm, alias and depends fields. The
special field filename lists the filename of the module.
-b basedir, -basedir= basedir
-
Root directory for modules, / by default.
-k kernel
-
Provide information about a kernel other than the running one. This is
particularly useful for distributions needing to extract information
from a newly installed (but not yet running) set of kernel modules. For
example, you wish to find which firmware files are needed by various
modules in a new kernel for which you must make an initrd/initramfs
image prior to booting.
-0, -null
-
Use the ASCII zero character to separate field values, instead of a new
line. This is useful for scripts, since a new line can theoretically
appear inside a field.
-a -author, -d -description, -l -license, -p -parameters, -n -filename
-
These are shortcuts for the -field flag's author, description,
license, parm and filename arguments, to ease the transition from the
old modutils modinfo.
-h, -help
-
Print the help message and exit.
COPYRIGHT
This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
SEE ALSO
modprobe(8)
BUGS
Please direct any bug reports to kmod's issue tracker at
https://github.com/kmo-project/kmod/issues/ alongside with version used, steps
to reproduce the problem and the expected outcome.
AUTHORS
Numerous contributions have come from the linu-modules mailing list
<linu-modules@vger.kernel.org> and Github. If you have a clone of kmod.git
itself, the output of gi-shortlog(1) and gi-blame(1) can show you the
authors for specific parts of the project.
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer of the
project.
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