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Somewhat inspired by my selfish use of VIM as man pager. Namely, when there are multiple options on the same line, only the first one gets properly rendered. A good bonus point is that very long instances, like modinfo's legacy "--author, --description ..." look a bit neater now. With this is also more consistently handle short/long options which take an argument. Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
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MODINFO(8) "kmod" "modinfo"
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# NAME
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modinfo - Show information about a Linux Kernel module
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# SYNOPSIS
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*modinfo* [*-0*] [*-F* _field_] [*-k* _kernel_] [modulename|filename...]
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*modinfo* *-V*
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*modinfo* *-h*
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# DESCRIPTION
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*modinfo* extracts information from the Linux Kernel modules given on the
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command line. If the module name is not a filename, then the @MODULE_DIRECTORY@/
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_version_ directory is searched, as is also done by *modprobe*(8) when loading
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kernel modules.
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*modinfo* by default lists each attribute of the module in form _fieldname_ :
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_value_, for easy reading. The filename is listed the same way (although it's
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not really an attribute).
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This version of *modinfo* can understand modules of any Linux Kernel
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architecture.
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# OPTIONS
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*-V*
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*--version*
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Print the *modinfo* version.
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*-F* _field_
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*--field* _field_
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Only print this _field_ value, one per line. This is most useful for
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scripts. Field names are case-insensitive. Common fields (which may not
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be in every module) include author, description, license, parm, depends,
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and alias. There are often multiple parm, alias and depends fields. The
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special _field_ filename lists the filename of the module.
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*-b* _basedir_
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*--basedir* _basedir_
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Root directory for modules, / by default.
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*-k* _kernel_
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Provide information about a kernel other than the running one. This is
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particularly useful for distributions needing to extract information
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from a newly installed (but not yet running) set of kernel modules. For
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example, you wish to find which firmware files are needed by various
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modules in a new kernel for which you must make an initrd/initramfs
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image prior to booting.
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*-0*
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*--null*
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Use the ASCII zero character to separate _field_ values, instead of a new
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line. This is useful for scripts, since a new line can theoretically
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appear inside a _field_.
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*-a* *--author*
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*-d* *--description*
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*-l* *--license*
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*-p* *--parameters*
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*-n* *--filename*
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These are shortcuts for the *--field* flag's author, description,
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license, parm and filename arguments, to ease the transition from the
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old modutils *modinfo*.
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# COPYRIGHT
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This manual page originally Copyright 2003, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.
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# SEE ALSO
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*modprobe*(8)
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# AUTHORS
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Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list
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<linux-modules@vger.kernel.org> and Github. If you have a clone of kmod.git
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itself, the output of *git-shortlog*(1) and *git-blame*(1) can show you the
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authors for specific parts of the project.
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*Lucas De Marchi* <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer of the
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project.
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