Re: module-info?

[Michael Schwendt <ms0301rh arcor de>]

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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.

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