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 file-
       name, then the /lib/modules/version directory is searched, as done by modprobe(8).

       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.  Com-
              mon 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 mod-
              ule.

       -k kernel
              Provide information about a kernel other than the running one. This is particularly useful for distributions need-
              ing  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
              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 -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 Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

SEE ALSO
       modprobe(8)



                                                            2003-05-9                                                 MODINFO(8)