modinfo

kmod
Developer Jon Masters jcm@jonmasters.org
Developer Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
modinfo 8
modinfo Show information about a Linux Kernel module
`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-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`.

## COPYRIGHT

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

## SEE ALSO

modprobe 8