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 module 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},
respectively.
-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.