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MODINFO(8) modinfo MODINFO(8)
modinfo - Show information about a Linux Kernel module
modinfo [-0] [-F field] [-k kernel] [modulename|filename...]
modinfo -V
modinfo -h
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.
-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-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.
This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM
Corporation. Maintained by Jon Masters and others.
modprobe(8)
Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
Developer
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Developer
This page is part of the kmod (userspace tools for managing
kernel modules) project. Information about the project can be
found at [unknown -- if you know, please contact man-
pages@man7.org] If you have a bug report for this manual page,
send it to linux-modules@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git⟩ on
2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2024-06-11.) If you
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kmod 06/14/2024 MODINFO(8)
Pages that refer to this page: query_module(2), modules.dep(5), insmod(8), kmod(8), lsmod(8), modprobe(8), rmmod(8)
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