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40758602 LDM |
1 | kmod 10 |
2 | ======= | |
3 | ||
4 | - New features: | |
5 | - Read coresize from /sys if supported | |
6 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
7 | - Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during |
8 | probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default. | |
40758602 | 9 | This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools |
a7fbae03 | 10 | and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module. |
40758602 LDM |
11 | |
12 | - Better formatting in man pages | |
13 | ||
a7fbae03 | 14 | - Add option to disable building man pages at build time |
40758602 | 15 | |
a7fbae03 | 16 | - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries |
40758602 LDM |
17 | |
18 | - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL | |
19 | ||
62081c0f LDM |
20 | kmod 9 |
21 | ====== | |
22 | ||
a7fbae03 | 23 | - Improvements to the testsuite: |
62081c0f LDM |
24 | - Check for correct handling of softdep loops |
25 | - Check for correct handling of install command loops | |
26 | ||
27 | - Bug fixes: | |
28 | - Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections | |
a7fbae03 JE |
29 | - Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules |
30 | - depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up | |
31 | with a corrupted index without telling the user | |
62081c0f | 32 | |
46684bc2 LDM |
33 | kmod 8 |
34 | ====== | |
35 | ||
36 | - No new features, small bug fixes only. | |
a7fbae03 | 37 | - Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with |
46684bc2 LDM |
38 | module-init-tools |
39 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
40 | - Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad |
41 | parameter or unknown symbols | |
46684bc2 LDM |
42 | |
43 | - Fix doc generation | |
44 | ||
8885ced0 LDM |
45 | kmod 7 |
46 | ====== | |
47 | ||
48 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and | |
49 | udev: now the priority is: | |
50 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d | |
51 | 2. /run/modprobe.d | |
52 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d | |
53 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
54 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not |
55 | allowing the user to set his preferences. | |
8885ced0 LDM |
56 | |
57 | - Bug fixes: | |
58 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules | |
59 | with modprobe | |
60 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the | |
61 | same of the running kernel | |
62 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments | |
63 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe | |
8885ced0 | 64 | |
26906fe7 LDM |
65 | kmod 6 |
66 | ====== | |
67 | ||
68 | - New API in libkmod: | |
69 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a | |
70 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of | |
71 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() | |
72 | ||
73 | - More tests in testsuite | |
74 | ||
75 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again | |
76 | ||
77 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel | |
78 | ||
79 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages | |
80 | ||
81 | - Bug fixes: | |
82 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled | |
83 | - Infinite loop with softdeps | |
84 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands | |
85 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match | |
86 | ||
87 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org | |
88 | ||
e479598b LDM |
89 | kmod 5 |
90 | ====== | |
91 | ||
92 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts | |
93 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were | |
94 | sanitized. | |
95 | ||
96 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of | |
97 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of | |
98 | code between modprobe and libkmod | |
99 | ||
100 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or | |
101 | aliases now. | |
102 | ||
103 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and | |
104 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. | |
105 | ||
106 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config | |
107 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. | |
108 | ||
109 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names | |
110 | ||
111 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should | |
112 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other | |
113 | modules. | |
114 | ||
115 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong | |
116 | information in ARMv5 | |
117 | ||
118 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are | |
119 | enabled | |
120 | ||
b53b7e32 LDM |
121 | kmod 4 |
122 | ====== | |
123 | ||
124 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
125 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
126 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
127 | - Dump indexes | |
128 | ||
129 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
130 | ||
131 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
132 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
133 | ||
134 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
135 | ||
136 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
137 | ||
138 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
139 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
140 | script. | |
141 | ||
142 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
143 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
144 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
145 | kmod 3 |
146 | ====== | |
147 | ||
148 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
149 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
150 | - Get dependency symbols | |
151 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
152 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
153 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
154 | function. | |
155 | ||
156 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
157 | ||
158 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
159 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
160 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
161 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
162 | ||
163 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
164 | APIs in libkmod. | |
165 | ||
166 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
167 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
168 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
169 | ||
170 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
171 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
172 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
173 | kmod 2 |
174 | ====== | |
175 | ||
176 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
177 | matched more than one module. | |
178 | ||
179 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
180 | - Get soft dependencies | |
181 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
182 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
183 | ||
184 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
185 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
186 | ||
187 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
188 | ||
189 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
190 | ||
191 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
192 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
193 | name obey a precedence order | |
194 | ||
195 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
196 | ||
197 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
198 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
199 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
200 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
201 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
202 | ||
203 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
204 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
205 | kmod 1 |
206 | ====== | |
ecd40ee4 | 207 | |
89eba7cb LDM |
208 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
209 | ||
210 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
211 | - List modules currently loaded | |
212 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
213 | holders, sections, address and size | |
214 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
215 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
216 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
217 | - Remove modules | |
218 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
219 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
220 | commands | |
221 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
222 | ||
223 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
224 | - kmod-lsmod | |
225 | - kmod-insmod | |
226 | - kmod-rmmod | |
227 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
228 | dump configuration, show modversions) |