1.\" $NetBSD: modstat.8,v 1.9 2011/08/02 16:46:45 mbalmer Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed for the 17.\" NetBSD Project. See http://www.NetBSD.org/ for 18.\" information about NetBSD. 19.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 20.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 23.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 24.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 25.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, 26.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT 27.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 28.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY 29.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 30.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 31.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 32.\" 33.\" <<Id: LICENSE,v 1.2 2000/06/14 15:57:33 cgd Exp>> 34.\" 35.Dd August 2, 2011 36.Dt MODSTAT 8 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm modstat 40.Nd display status of loaded kernel modules 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl n 44.Op Ar name 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility displays the status of any kernel modules present in the kernel. 49.Pp 50The options are as follows: 51.Bl -tag -width indent 52.It Fl n Ar name 53Display the status of only the module with this name. 54Please note that 55.Fl n 56is optional. 57.El 58.Pp 59In addition to listing the currently loaded modules' name, 60the information reported by 61.Nm 62includes: 63.Pp 64.Bl -tag -width Loadaddr 65.It Li CLASS 66Module class, such as 67"vfs", "driver", "exec", "misc" or "secmodel". 68.It Li SOURCE 69Where the module was loaded from. 70.Qq Dv builtin 71indicates that the module was built into the running kernel. 72.Qq Dv boot 73indicates that the module was loaded during system bootstrap. 74.Qq Dv filesys 75indicates that the module was loaded from the file system. 76.It Li SIZE 77Size of the module in bytes. 78.It Li REFS 79Number of references held on the module. 80Disabled builtin modules will show a count of \-1 here. 81.It Li REQUIRES 82Additional modules that must be present. 83.El 84.Sh EXIT STATUS 85The 86.Nm 87utility exits with a status of 0 on success 88and with a nonzero status if an error occurs. 89.Sh SEE ALSO 90.Xr module 7 , 91.Xr modload 8 , 92.Xr modunload 8 93.Sh HISTORY 94The 95.Nm 96command was designed to be similar in functionality 97to the corresponding command in 98.Tn "SunOS 4.1.3" . 99