Kernel modules: how to get some basic info about them ?

[Steve Flynn]

On Jan 5, 2008 5:05 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > have you tried modinfo ?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I have just tried it, looks nice, but
> unfortunately it doesn't spit out enough information for me to be able
> to tell if the module comes from Ubuntu, or if I compiled it myself.

At work, when I've amended some assembler which has been supplied to
us, I make sure I stick in an eyecatcher with my userid in there
somewhere. Thus, if I'm ever looking at a dump and I see my
eyecatchers I know not to hassle the vendor with a tainted dump until
I've ascertained that none of my code it to blame.

I can be as simple as an few bytes in the datablock with "Trouillez"
in them...  If you're then trying to see if a module has been modified
or compiled by you, grep the module for your surname and you're
golden...



-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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