I hope I found the right mailing list for this issue, which came up here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/96008 The man page for modinfo claims that with the -F / --field option only the specified field gets printed. Currently this is not true as for builtin modules, the name is always printed. Try something like "modinfo -F firmware unix" for example. It will print: "name: unix" So either the man page needs to be updated or the behaviour changed. The following patch should fix this: --- tools/modinfo.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/modinfo.c b/tools/modinfo.c index 0231bb0..7b2259e 100644 --- a/tools/modinfo.c +++ b/tools/modinfo.c @@ -178,7 +178,10 @@ static int modinfo_do(struct kmod_module *mod) is_builtin = (filename == NULL); if (is_builtin) { - printf("%-16s%s%c", "name:", kmod_module_get_name(mod), separator); + if (field == NULL || field != NULL && streq(field, "name")){ + printf("%-16s%s%c", "name:", + kmod_module_get_name(mod), separator); + } filename = "(builtin)"; } -- 2.28.0
