redhat man page for modinfo

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MODINFO(8)						       Linux Module Support							MODINFO(8)

NAME
modinfo - display information about a kernel module
SYNOPSIS
modinfo [ options ] <module_file>
DESCRIPTION
The modinfo utility examines the object file module_file associated with a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean. OPTIONS -a, --author Display the module's author. -d, --description Display the module's description. -fformat_string, --format format_string Let the user specify an arbitrary format string which can extract values from the ELF section in module_file which contains the mod- ule information. Replacements consist of a percent sign followed by a tag name in curly braces. A tagname of %{filename} is always supported, even if the module has no modinfo section. %{kernel_version} shows the version of the kernel the module was compiled for. %{using_checksums} expands to 1 is the module has versioned symbols and to 0 or <none> otherwise. A tagname of %{parm} is special: the format string line is repeated for each known module parameter (which may be zero times) and %{parm} is then replaced by descriptions of module parameters (one parameter on each repeated line). Alternatively, %a, %d, %l, %n and %p can be used instead of %{author}, %{description}, %{filename}, %{license} and %{parm}, respec- tively. -h, --help Display a summary of options and immediately exit. -l, --license Display the module's license. -n, --filename Display the module's filename. -p, --parameters Display the typed parameters that a module may support. -V, --version Display the version of modinfo. If no options are supplied, the default is filename, description, author, license and parameters.
SEE ALSO
insmod(8), modprobe(8), depmod(8), rmmod(8), lsmod(8), ksyms(8), modules(2) Linux March 19, 2002 MODINFO(8)
Related Man Pages
modinfo(8) - centos
modinfo(8) - linux
modinfo(8) - redhat
modinfo(8) - suse
modinfo(1m) - freebsd
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