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