-----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----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
