Re: Questions on module macros in <linux/module.h>

Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:49:20 +0200


On Thu, Sep 16 1999, Bret Indrelee wrote:
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(), MODULE_DESCRIPTION() and MODULE_AUTHOR() all appear to
> be textual descriptions of parameters, the funciton of the module, and who
> wrote it respectively.
>
> This appears to be information intended for the people loading the module.
> How do people ever see this information? The only thing I can think of is to
> do:
> objdump --section=.modinfo --full-contents <fname>
>
> The above command doesn't exactly seem like something a system adminstrator
> would normally do.

modinfo comes as part of the modutils package - so no need
to use objdump.

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