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diff --git a/perl-install/modules/parameters.pm b/perl-install/modules/parameters.pm
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+package modules::parameters; # $Id$
+
+use diagnostics;
+use strict;
+
+#-######################################################################################
+#- misc imports
+#-######################################################################################
+use common;
+use modules;
+
+
+sub parameters {
+  my ($module) = @_;
+
+  my $modinfo = '/sbin/modinfo';
+  -x $modinfo or $modinfo = '/usr/bin/modinfo';
+  -x $modinfo or die N("modinfo is not available");
+
+  if (!$::isStandalone && !$::testing) {
+      modules::extract_modules('/tmp', $module);
+      $module = "/tmp/$module.o";
+  }
+
+  my @parameters;
+  foreach (common::join_lines(`$modinfo -p $module`)) {
+      chomp;
+      next if /^warning:/;
+      (my $name, $_) = /(\S+)\s+(.*)/s or warn "modules::parameters::get_options_name($module): unknown line\n";
+
+      my $c_types = 'int|string|short|byte|char|long';
+      my ($is_a_number, $description, $min, $max) = (0, '', 1, 1);
+      if (/^($c_types) array \(min = (\d+), max = (\d+)\),?\s*(.*)/s) {
+	  $_ = $4;
+	  #- seems like "char" are buggy entries
+	  ($is_a_number, $min, $max) = ($1 ne 'string', $2, $3) if $1 ne 'char'; 
+      } elsif (/^($c_types),?\s*(.*)/s) {
+	  $_ = $2;
+	  #- here "char" really are size-limited strings, modinfo doesn't display the size limit (but since we don't care about it, it doesn't matter :)
+	  $is_a_number = $1 ne 'string' if $1 ne 'char';
+      } else {
+	  #- for things like "no format character" or "unknown format character"
+      }
+      if (/^description "(.*)",?\s*/s) {
+	  ($description, $_) = ($1, $2);
+      }
+      #- print "STILL HAVE ($_)\n" if $_;
+
+	 my $format = $min == 1 && $max == 1 ?
+		($is_a_number ? N("a number") : '') :
+		$min == $max ? 
+		($is_a_number ? N("%d comma separated numbers", $min) : N("%d comma separated strings", $min)) :
+		$min == 1 ?
+		($is_a_number ? N("comma separated numbers") : N("comma separated strings")) :
+		''; #- too weird and buggy, do not display it
+    push @parameters, [ $name, $format, $description ];
+  }
+  @parameters;
+}
+
+1;