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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, --field 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.
-h, --help
Print the help message and exit.
This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM
Corporation.
modprobe(8)
Please direct any bug reports to kmod's issue tracker at
https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/issues/ alongside with
version used, steps to reproduce the problem and the expected
outcome.
Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing
list <[email protected]> and Github. If you have a
clone of kmod.git itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and
git-blame(1) can show you the authors for specific parts of the
project.
Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]> is the current
maintainer of the project.
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 [email protected]] If you
have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2025-07-13.) If you discover
any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
mail to [email protected]
kmod 2025-08-11 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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