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.

COPYRIGHT

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

SEE ALSO

       modprobe(8)

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                                               2025-02-20                                         MODINFO(8)