Getting Information About A Kernel Module - modinfo

• In order to get information about a Module (author, supported options), we may use the modinfo command.
• For example, information about the 'mousedev' Module:

  [choo@simey ~]$ /sbin/modinfo mousedev
  filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.7.x/kernel/drivers/input/mousedev.o
  description: "Input driver to PS/2 or ImPS/2 device driver"
  author:      "Vojtech Pavlik "
  license:     "GPL"
  parm:        xres int, description "Horizontal screen resolution"
  parm:        yres int, description "Vertical screen resolution"
       

• The source code of the Module can also be used to get information about it. In some cases, there are interesting comments at the top of the source file.

Originally written by guy keren