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Subject: how to get version string and other metadata out of a not-loaded kernel module file?
From: Mark Atwood <mra@pobox.com>
Date: 17 Sep 2001 13:02:36 -0700
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Is there an (easy) way to query the "metadata", such as the version
strings and such, of a kernel module file, without loading it first?