Manual: modinfo

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NAME
       modinfo - 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 filename, then the /lib/modules/ version directory is searched, as is also done by mod‐
       probe(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, --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, li‐
	   cense, 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 argu‐
	   ments, to ease the transition from the old modutils modinfo.

       -h, --help
	   Print the help message and exit.

COPYRIGHT
       This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

SEE ALSO
       modprobe(8)

BUGS
       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.

AUTHORS
       Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list  
       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  is the current maintainer of the project.

kmod						 2026-02-02					  MODINFO(8)