device driver info

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:08:58AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> modinfo is probably what you are looking for. Here is a (purely random) 
> example:
> 
> [bradh at localhost bradh]$ /sbin/modinfo CDCEther
> filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.19-pre6/kernel/drivers/usb/CDCEther.o
> description: "USB CDC Ethernet driver"
> author:      "Brad Hards and another"
> parm:        multicast_filter_limit int, description "CDCEther maximum number 
> of filtered multicast addresses"

That's totally awesome. I knew there had to be a program like this, but
could never find it.

/me files bug against modutils for not mentioning it on the manpages

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> arithmetic and those that can't.