[LU-6204] modinfo data is stale, and would be nice if they included the lustre version

Duplicate — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:54:38 +0000

At least some of the description and author fields are bit out of date. For example, here are a couple from a relative recent master build:

$ modinfo lustre
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6_lustre.g61d3d7e.x86_64/extra/kernel/fs/lustre/lustre.ko
license:        GPL
description:    Lustre Lite Client File System
author:         Sun Microsystems, Inc. <http://www.lustre.org/>
srcversion:     DE8D25CD9D11413C43993B7
depends:        obdclass,ptlrpc,libcfs,lov,lmv,mdc,lnet
vermagic:       2.6.32-431.29.2.el6_lustre.g61d3d7e.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions

$ modinfo lnet
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.29.2.el6_lustre.g61d3d7e.x86_64/extra/kernel/net/lustre/lnet.ko
license:        GPL
description:    Portals v3.1
author:         Peter J. Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>
srcversion:     926B9ED8F12D01E0679DE04
depends:        libcfs
vermagic:       2.6.32-431.29.2.el6_lustre.g61d3d7e.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: ....

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[LU-6204] modinfo data is stale, and would be nice if they included the lustre version