.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .\" This program is distributed according to the Gnu General Public License. .\" See the file COPYING in the kernel source directory .\" $Id: modinfo.1,v 1.1 1997/11/11 17:04:23 tdyas Exp $ .\" .TH MODINFO 1 "11 Nov 1997" Linux "Linux Module Support" .SH NAME modinfo \- display information about a kernel module .SH SYNOPSIS .B modinfo [ options ] .SH DESCRIPTION The .B modinfo utility examines the object file .I module_file associated with a kernel module and displays any information that it can glean. .SS OPTIONS .TP .BR \-a ", " \-\-author Display the module's author. .TP .BR \-d ", " \-\-description Display the module's description. .TP .BI \-f format_string ", \-\-format " format_string Let the user specify an arbitrary format string which can extract values from the ELF section in .I module_file which contains the module information. Replacements consist of a percent sign followed by a tag name in curly braces. .TP .BR \-p ", " \-\-parameters Display the typed parameters that a module may support. .TP .BR \-h ", " \-\-help Display a small usage screen. .TP .BR \-V ", " \-\-version Display the version of .BR modinfo . .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR insmod "(1), " modprobe "(1), " depmod "(1), " rmmod "(1), " .BR lsmod "(1), " ksyms "(1), " modules "(2) "