MODINFO(8)																MODINFO(8)

NAME

       modinfo - program to 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
	      Only  print  this field value, one per line. This is most useful for scripts. Field names are case-insenitive.  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.

       -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 theo-
	      retically appear inside a field.

       -a -d -l -p -n
	      These are shortcuts for author, description, license. parm and filename respectively, to ease the transition from the  old  modutils
	      modinfo.

COPYRIGHT

       This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.

SEE ALSO

       modprobe(8)

								    2010-03-01								MODINFO(8)