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Re: Information about modules



Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> writes:
JS> I see on Redhat machines there is a file
JS> /boot/module-info-<kernelversion> with valuable information about
JS> modules and there relation to hardware components e.g.

JS> Is there something similar available for Debian?

There's an /sbin/modinfo program that prints very similar information;
a simple application of find, modinfo, and (sed/awk/perl/...) could
easily produce an equivalent file.  Note that the description isn't
guaranteed to be useful, though:

{25} modutils% /sbin/modinfo -d w83781d
"W83781D driver"

It helps to know that this is an I2C driver, but there's not
necessarily any indication of this.

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