Mike.
Michael Schwendt wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:15:53 +0000, Mike Reed wrote:This seems to be the most closely guarded secret in RedHat. I've searched through hundreds of newsgroup articles going back six years trying to find the answer to "What is /boot/module-info?" There are hundreds of questions on this but I can't find any definitive answer. There are lots or answers saying "it's not important", "it's RedHat specific", "It's created with make modules" (wrong!), but there is no clear definitive answer. And yes, I have searched the RedHat web site as well. In the top of the file it describes what its format is but not what the file is used for. So does anyone have a clear and full description of what module-info is, how it was created, and what it is used for/by?I could only repeat what I've posted to this list in the past. Since a few installation/configuration tools contain a copy (albeit modified) of such a module-info file, I *guess* the contents are used during hardware detection/configuration and allow the tools to determine what kernel modules to use and how to set additional parameters in modules.conf. I think the module-info file in the kernel package is just a master copy which is not referenced by any tool. It might be an automatically generated file, but some of the module descriptions don't match what's in the source files. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+X6Ny0iMVcrivHFQRAu4fAKCCf2EnxhZ6wWa2P0Tlah9sRmGiRwCfS0rA lBwIZeAOdgIaA5hiIKoTYHo= =iAJx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
