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

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:37:26 +0000
"Steve Flynn" <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...

Looks like overkill, but I like the idea, will try it out... thanks for
the suggestion.

--
Vince