Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:49:20 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Questions on module macros in <linux/module.h> |
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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.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * http://www.kernel.dk
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