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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
       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.

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, 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.

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
       <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org> 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 <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer
       of the project.

kmod				  2025-03-28			    MODINFO(8)