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819a125c LDM |
1 | kmod 27 |
2 | ======= | |
3 | ||
4 | - Improvements | |
5 | - Link to libcrypto rather than requiring openssl | |
6 | ||
7 | - Print a better error message when kernel doesn't support module unload | |
8 | ||
9 | - Use PKCS#7 instead of CMS for parsing module signature to be | |
10 | compatible with LibreSSL and OpenSSL < 1.1.0 | |
11 | ||
12 | - Teach modinfo to parse modules.builtin.modinfo. When using Linux kernel | |
13 | >= v5.2-rc1 it's possible to get module information from this new file. Now | |
14 | modinfo is able to show it instead of an error message that the module is | |
15 | built-in: | |
16 | ||
17 | Before: | |
18 | $ modinfo ext4 | |
19 | modinfo: ERROR: Module ext4 not found. | |
20 | ||
21 | After: | |
22 | $ modinfo ext4 | |
23 | name: ext4 | |
24 | filename: (builtin) | |
25 | softdep: pre: crc32c | |
26 | license: GPL | |
27 | description: Fourth Extended Filesystem | |
28 | author: Remy Card, Stephen Tweedie, Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Theodore Ts'o and others | |
29 | alias: fs-ext4 | |
30 | alias: ext3 | |
31 | alias: fs-ext3 | |
32 | alias: ext2 | |
33 | alias: fs-ext2 | |
34 | ||
35 | - Bug fixes | |
36 | - Do not link python bindings with libpython to be compatible with | |
37 | python3.8 | |
38 | ||
39 | - Fix module removal with `modprobe -r` when a dependency is built-in. | |
40 | Now it properly ignores them and proceed with removal of other | |
41 | dependencies | |
42 | ||
43 | - Fix propagation of return code from install/remove commands to the | |
44 | the probe function. The return values of kmod_module_probe_insert_module() | |
45 | have very specific meanings, do not confuse the caller by return codes | |
46 | from system() | |
47 | ||
48 | - Fix softdep config parsing leading to buffer overflow | |
49 | ||
58133a96 LDM |
50 | kmod 26 |
51 | ======= | |
52 | ||
53 | - Improvements | |
54 | - Add more error-checking in library functions and remove warnings on newer | |
55 | toolchains | |
56 | ||
57 | - Depmod now handles parallel invoctions better by protecting the temporary | |
58 | files being used | |
59 | ||
60 | - Improvements to testsuite and added tests to check the our behavior | |
61 | regardless of the features enabled in the kernel, or libraries we link to | |
62 | ||
63 | - Teach the --show-exports option to modprobe. This works similarly to | |
64 | --show-modversions, but it reports the exported symbols from that module. | |
65 | Under the hood this reads the .symtab and .strtab section rather than | |
66 | __versions so it shows useful data even if kernel is configured without | |
67 | modversions (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) | |
68 | ||
69 | - Teach pkcs7 parsing to modinfo by using openssl. This allows modinfo to | |
70 | correctly parse the signature appended to a module by the kernel build | |
71 | system when configured with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL, or when externally | |
72 | signed by the distro. Traditionally modules were signed and a struct | |
73 | was appended together with the signature to the end of the module. | |
74 | This has changed on the kernel for pkcs#7 and now the structure isn't | |
75 | filled out with useful information. So we have to parse the signature | |
76 | block in order to return useful data to the user. | |
77 | ||
78 | If kmod is linked with openssl we parse the signature and return the | |
79 | fields as we do for other signatures. An example of the relevant part | |
80 | on the output of modinfo is below: | |
81 | ||
82 | Before: | |
83 | sig_id: PKCS#7 | |
84 | signer: | |
85 | sig_key: | |
86 | sig_hashalgo: md4 | |
87 | After: | |
88 | sig_id: PKCS#7 | |
89 | signer: Fedora kernel signing key | |
90 | sig_key: 51:C4:0C:6D:7E:A5:6C:D8:8F:B4:3A:DF:91:78:4F:18:BC:D5:E4:C5 | |
91 | sig_hashalgo: sha256 | |
92 | ||
93 | If kmod is not linked to openssl we just start printing "unknonwn" in the | |
94 | sig_hashalgo field rather than the bogus value. | |
95 | ||
96 | ||
aca4eca1 LDM |
97 | kmod 25 |
98 | ======= | |
99 | ||
100 | - Improvements | |
101 | - Add module signature to modinfo output | |
102 | ||
103 | - Add support for external directories in depmod: now there's a new | |
104 | "external" keyword parsed by depmod when calculating the dependencies. | |
105 | It allows to add modules to other directories which are not relative | |
106 | to where the modules are commonly installed. This results in | |
107 | modules.dep and friends now understanding absolute paths rather than | |
108 | relative paths only. For more information see depmod.d(1). | |
109 | ||
110 | - Add support for CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS | |
111 | ||
112 | - Add missing documentation references in man pages | |
113 | ||
114 | - Handle the case in which module has a .TOC symbol already while | |
115 | calculating dependencies | |
116 | ||
117 | - Improve testsuite and allow to use mkosi to run testsuite in different | |
118 | distros | |
119 | ||
ef4257b5 LDM |
120 | kmod 24 |
121 | ======= | |
122 | ||
123 | - Improvements: | |
124 | - Add more information on dependency loop | |
125 | ||
126 | - Sanitize use of strcpy and allow to grow from small strings on stack | |
127 | (common case) to bigger strings on heap when needed | |
128 | ||
129 | - Bug fixes | |
130 | - Fix wrong dependency loops being reported by depmod | |
131 | ||
132 | - Fix crashes when reporting dependency loops | |
133 | ||
134 | - Fix parsing kernel command line containing quotes | |
135 | ||
136 | - Fix leaks on error paths | |
137 | ||
a29268d0 LDM |
138 | kmod 23 |
139 | ======= | |
140 | ||
141 | - Improvements: | |
142 | - Don't add comment to modules.devname if it would otherwise be empty | |
143 | to play nice with tools detecting empty files | |
144 | ||
145 | - Allow building with BSD sed, that doesn't have -E flag | |
146 | ||
147 | - Ignore .TOC. symbols in depmod parsing as it's for PPC64 the | |
148 | equivalent of _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ | |
149 | ||
150 | - Teach modinfo about PKCS#7 module signatures: it doesn't add any | |
151 | other info besides telling the user the module is signed since | |
152 | kernel doesn't add other info on the module section | |
153 | ||
154 | - Bug fixes | |
155 | ||
156 | - Fix -s and -p compat options to insmod triggering force flag | |
157 | ||
158 | - Fix long lines from /proc/modules not being handled correctly by | |
159 | kmod_module_new_from_loaded() and kmod_module_get_size() and several | |
160 | other library functions that use them | |
161 | ||
162 | - Fix crash on modinfo while checking for available signature of | |
163 | unknown type | |
164 | ||
165 | - Fix documentation generation with gtk-doc | |
166 | ||
42f32b8a LDM |
167 | kmod 22 |
168 | ======= | |
169 | ||
170 | - Tools: | |
171 | - Change defaul log level for tools to WARNING rather than ERROR and update | |
172 | some log levels for current messages | |
173 | ||
174 | - depmod doesn't fallback to uname if a bad version is passed in the command | |
175 | line anymore. We just exit with an error. | |
176 | ||
177 | - insmod was taught the -f flag, just like in modprobe. It was previously | |
178 | silently ignoring it. | |
179 | ||
180 | - libkmod | |
181 | - New kmod_get_dirname() API to get the module directory set in the | |
182 | context | |
183 | ||
184 | - Bug fixes: | |
185 | - Fix return code in error path of kmod_module_insert_module(). We were | |
186 | previously returning ENOSYS rather than ENOENT. | |
187 | ||
2bfcd7ef LDM |
188 | kmod 21 |
189 | ======= | |
190 | ||
191 | - New features: | |
192 | - kmod tool started to learn the "insert" and "remove" commands that | |
193 | are the simplified versions of the older modprobe tool. These | |
194 | commands are still work in progress so they are hidden behind a | |
195 | --enable-experimental flag during build. It should not be enabled | |
196 | unless you know what you're doing. | |
197 | - kmod tool now prints the relevant configuration options it was built | |
198 | with when the "--version" argument is passed. This helps to mitigate | |
199 | problems for example when the user is trying to load a compressed | |
200 | module but kmod was built without support for the compression method. | |
201 | ||
202 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
203 | - Cache built modules so it is easier to run "make check" on build | |
204 | servers by distro maintainers. If kmod is configured with | |
205 | --disable-test-modules the modules from cache will be used by | |
206 | "make check". No changes to the tests are needed and all of them | |
207 | can run fine. | |
208 | ||
d9c71758 LDM |
209 | kmod 20 |
210 | ======= | |
211 | - Bug fixes: | |
212 | - Handle bogus values from ELF, making sure they don't overflow while | |
213 | parsing the file | |
214 | - Fix leak in depmod when -b flag is passed multiple times | |
215 | - Multiple minor fixes from static analysis by coverity and | |
216 | clang-analyze | |
217 | - Fix race between loading modules and checking if it's loaded in the | |
218 | kernel | |
219 | ||
220 | - New features: | |
221 | - There's a change in behavior regarding builtin modules: we now only | |
222 | consider as builtin those that are present in modules.builtin index. | |
223 | Previously we were also checking the presence of | |
224 | /sys/module/<module-name>, but this is racy and only modules that | |
225 | contain parameters are the ones creating a directory in sysfs. | |
226 | ||
227 | Now some commands will start to fail, e.g. "modprobe vt". Since vt | |
228 | can't be compiled as a module it's not present in modules.builtin | |
229 | index. Previously we would report at as builtin, but now we fail | |
230 | because we couldn't find the module. | |
231 | ||
232 | - Improvements: | |
233 | - Integration of gcov into the build. Currently libkmod is at ~70% | |
234 | covered and tools at ~50% by tests in the testsuite. Utility | |
235 | functions and structures in shared have more than 90% of coverage. | |
236 | - Upload build to coverity | |
237 | ||
238 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
239 | - Fix parsing return codes of init_module() calls | |
240 | - Add tests for utility functions in shared/ | |
241 | - Add tests for kmod_module_remove_module() | |
242 | - Add playground, in which our own modules are compiled | |
243 | - Port all tests to use modules from module-playground instead of | |
244 | copying prebuilt modules to the repository | |
245 | - Properly handle binaries that exit with no output | |
246 | - Besides comparing the output of commands, allow to copy to | |
247 | stdout/stderr | |
248 | ||
f9e2167b LDM |
249 | kmod 19 |
250 | ======= | |
251 | ||
252 | - Bug fixes: | |
253 | - Fix missing CLOEXEC in library | |
254 | - Fix error message while opening kmod's index | |
255 | ||
256 | - New features: | |
257 | - Add kmod(8) man page | |
258 | - Allow to build with libc's without be32toh() | |
259 | - Move code around separating common code and data structures into a | |
260 | shared directory. This allows to share more code between library and | |
3b058610 | 261 | tools, making the binary size of tools smaller. |
f9e2167b | 262 | - Clarify tools vs library licenses |
3b058610 | 263 | - static-nodes: when writing in tmpfiles format, indicate that |
f9e2167b LDM |
264 | creation of static nodes should only happen at boot. This is used and |
265 | required by systemd-217+. | |
266 | ||
267 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
268 | - Add tests for newly created shared/ code | |
269 | - Improve how tests are declared so there's less boilerplate code for | |
270 | each test. | |
271 | ||
ae58de0f LDM |
272 | kmod 18 |
273 | ======= | |
274 | ||
275 | - Bug fixes: | |
276 | - Fix leaks in error paths | |
277 | - Fix use-after-free in hash implementation causing a wrong index to be | |
278 | generated by depmod with out-of-tree modules | |
279 | ||
280 | - New features: | |
281 | - Calling depmod with modules creating a dependency loop will now make | |
282 | depmod return an error and not update the indexes. This is to protect | |
283 | the current index not being overridden by another index that may cause | |
284 | a boot failure, depending on the buggy module. It's a necessary | |
285 | change in behavior regarding previous kmod releases and | |
286 | module-init-tools. The error message was also improved to output | |
287 | the modules that caused the dependency cycle. | |
288 | ||
289 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
290 | - Fix and improve expected-fail test | |
291 | - Add tests for hashmap implementation | |
292 | ||
49d8e0b5 LDM |
293 | kmod 17 |
294 | ======= | |
295 | ||
296 | - Bug fixes: | |
297 | - Fix matching a "." in kernel cmdline, making garbage in the command | |
298 | line be parsed as kmod options | |
299 | - Fix man pages to clarify we don't fallback to parsing modules.dep | |
300 | but instead we depend on modules.dep.bin (generated by depmod) to | |
301 | be present | |
302 | - Fix ELF parsing on 32 bit systems assigning the wrong class. | |
303 | - Fix partial matches of search directives in depmod. Previously having | |
304 | a line in depmod.conf such as "search foo foobar built-in" would cause | |
305 | unpretictable results because foo is a partial match of foobar as well. | |
306 | - Fix unaligned access in modinfo when getting the signature from a | |
307 | module | |
308 | - Make sure softdeps are treated as optional dependencies | |
309 | ||
310 | - New features: | |
311 | - Accept special files given to "-C" switch in modprobe. This way it's | |
312 | possible to skip system configuration with "modprobe -C /dev/null" | |
313 | - Do not require xsltproc on released tarballs | |
314 | - Don't use Werror anymore | |
315 | - Add experimental python bindings, merged from python-kmod repository | |
316 | (https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod) | |
317 | - Parse softdeps exported by the kernel as | |
318 | /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep | |
319 | ||
320 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
321 | - Check the list of loaded modules after a test | |
322 | ||
7ab88044 LDM |
323 | kmod 16 |
324 | ======= | |
325 | ||
8f67ab53 LDM |
326 | - Bug fixes: |
327 | - Fix usage of readdir_r() | |
36c4bb92 | 328 | - Add some missing checks for memory allocation errors |
8f67ab53 | 329 | |
7ab88044 LDM |
330 | - New features: |
331 | - Remove option from libkmod to allow waiting on module removal if | |
332 | the module is being used. It's dangerous since it can block the | |
333 | caller indefinitely. | |
8f67ab53 LDM |
334 | - Improve compatibility with musl libc |
335 | - Add fallback implementation for compilers without _Static_assert(), | |
336 | e.g. gcc < 4.6 | |
337 | - Minor optimizations to the hash table | |
338 | - Make depmod warn if a module has incorrect devname specification | |
36c4bb92 | 339 | - Use cleanup attribute |
7ab88044 | 340 | |
b3e19ce9 LDM |
341 | kmod 15 |
342 | ======= | |
343 | ||
344 | - Bug fixes: | |
345 | - kmod static-nodes doesn't fail if modules.devname isn't available | |
18811d22 LDM |
346 | - Fix getting boolean parameter from kernel cmdline in case the value |
347 | is omitted | |
348 | - Fix some mkdir_p() corner cases (used in testsuite and static-nodes) | |
b3e19ce9 LDM |
349 | |
350 | - New features: | |
351 | - kmod static-nodes creates parent directories if given a -o option | |
18811d22 LDM |
352 | - kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested |
353 | in the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from | |
354 | installing the library | |
355 | - Add shell completion for kmod tool | |
b3e19ce9 | 356 | |
3b38c7fc LDM |
357 | kmod 14 |
358 | ======= | |
359 | ||
360 | - Bug fixes: | |
361 | - Fix some format strings | |
362 | - Protect against NULL being passed around to index | |
363 | - Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available, | |
364 | since this doesn't always work | |
365 | - Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's | |
366 | refcount | |
367 | - Minor fixes and refactors | |
368 | ||
369 | - New features: | |
370 | - Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt | |
371 | with. | |
372 | - Remove ability to build a static libkmod | |
373 | - Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname | |
374 | generating output in useful formats | |
375 | ||
abb910eb LDM |
376 | kmod 13 |
377 | ======= | |
378 | ||
379 | - Bug fixes: | |
380 | - Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent) | |
381 | and fix its behavior | |
382 | - Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias | |
383 | psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of | |
384 | modutils | |
385 | ||
386 | - New features: | |
387 | - Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from | |
388 | the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when | |
389 | available, falling back to init_module() otherwise | |
390 | - kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is | |
391 | signed and modinfo uses it | |
392 | - Use secure_getenv if available | |
393 | - rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does | |
394 | - Improve compatibility with musl-libc | |
395 | - Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are | |
396 | xfail tests | |
397 | ||
6feba028 LDM |
398 | kmod 12 |
399 | ======= | |
400 | ||
401 | - Bug fixes: | |
402 | - Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module | |
403 | - Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we | |
404 | need to mangle the section header, not the section. | |
405 | - modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path | |
406 | contains ".ko" substring | |
407 | ||
c599606f LDM |
408 | kmod 11 |
409 | ======= | |
410 | ||
411 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
412 | - Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems | |
413 | - Allow to check generated files against correct ones | |
414 | ||
415 | - New features: | |
416 | - libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to | |
417 | kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This | |
c7243325 | 418 | reduces significantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to |
c599606f LDM |
419 | execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used. |
420 | - Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea | |
421 | after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then | |
422 | benefits. | |
423 | - Hide --wait option on rmmod. This feature is being targeted for | |
424 | removal from kernel. rmmod still accepts this option, but it's hidden | |
7ab88044 | 425 | now: man page and usage() say nothing about it and if it's used, |
c599606f LDM |
426 | user will get a 10s sleep. This way we can check and help if anyone |
427 | is using this feature. | |
428 | - Refactor message logging on all tools, giving proper prefix, routing | |
429 | everything to syslog when asked for, etc. | |
430 | ||
431 | - Bug fixes: | |
432 | - Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules | |
433 | - Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr | |
434 | - Fix memory leak in hash implementation | |
435 | ||
40758602 LDM |
436 | kmod 10 |
437 | ======= | |
438 | ||
439 | - New features: | |
440 | - Read coresize from /sys if supported | |
441 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
442 | - Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during |
443 | probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default. | |
40758602 | 444 | This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools |
a7fbae03 | 445 | and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module. |
40758602 LDM |
446 | |
447 | - Better formatting in man pages | |
448 | ||
a7fbae03 | 449 | - Add option to disable building man pages at build time |
40758602 | 450 | |
a7fbae03 | 451 | - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries |
40758602 LDM |
452 | |
453 | - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL | |
454 | ||
62081c0f LDM |
455 | kmod 9 |
456 | ====== | |
457 | ||
a7fbae03 | 458 | - Improvements to the testsuite: |
62081c0f LDM |
459 | - Check for correct handling of softdep loops |
460 | - Check for correct handling of install command loops | |
461 | ||
462 | - Bug fixes: | |
463 | - Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections | |
a7fbae03 JE |
464 | - Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules |
465 | - depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up | |
466 | with a corrupted index without telling the user | |
62081c0f | 467 | |
46684bc2 LDM |
468 | kmod 8 |
469 | ====== | |
470 | ||
471 | - No new features, small bug fixes only. | |
a7fbae03 | 472 | - Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with |
46684bc2 LDM |
473 | module-init-tools |
474 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
475 | - Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad |
476 | parameter or unknown symbols | |
46684bc2 LDM |
477 | |
478 | - Fix doc generation | |
479 | ||
8885ced0 LDM |
480 | kmod 7 |
481 | ====== | |
482 | ||
483 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and | |
484 | udev: now the priority is: | |
485 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d | |
486 | 2. /run/modprobe.d | |
487 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d | |
488 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
489 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not |
490 | allowing the user to set his preferences. | |
8885ced0 LDM |
491 | |
492 | - Bug fixes: | |
493 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules | |
494 | with modprobe | |
495 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the | |
496 | same of the running kernel | |
497 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments | |
498 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe | |
8885ced0 | 499 | |
26906fe7 LDM |
500 | kmod 6 |
501 | ====== | |
502 | ||
503 | - New API in libkmod: | |
504 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a | |
505 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of | |
506 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() | |
507 | ||
508 | - More tests in testsuite | |
509 | ||
510 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again | |
511 | ||
512 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel | |
513 | ||
514 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages | |
515 | ||
516 | - Bug fixes: | |
517 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled | |
518 | - Infinite loop with softdeps | |
519 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands | |
520 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match | |
521 | ||
522 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org | |
523 | ||
e479598b LDM |
524 | kmod 5 |
525 | ====== | |
526 | ||
527 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts | |
528 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were | |
529 | sanitized. | |
530 | ||
531 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of | |
532 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of | |
533 | code between modprobe and libkmod | |
534 | ||
535 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or | |
536 | aliases now. | |
537 | ||
538 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and | |
539 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. | |
540 | ||
541 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config | |
542 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. | |
543 | ||
544 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names | |
545 | ||
546 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should | |
547 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other | |
548 | modules. | |
549 | ||
550 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong | |
551 | information in ARMv5 | |
552 | ||
553 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are | |
554 | enabled | |
555 | ||
b53b7e32 LDM |
556 | kmod 4 |
557 | ====== | |
558 | ||
559 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
560 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
561 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
562 | - Dump indexes | |
563 | ||
564 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
565 | ||
566 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
567 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
568 | ||
569 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
570 | ||
571 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
572 | ||
573 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
574 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
575 | script. | |
576 | ||
577 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
578 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
579 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
580 | kmod 3 |
581 | ====== | |
582 | ||
583 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
584 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
585 | - Get dependency symbols | |
586 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
587 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
588 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
589 | function. | |
590 | ||
591 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
592 | ||
593 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
594 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
595 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
596 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
597 | ||
598 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
599 | APIs in libkmod. | |
600 | ||
601 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
602 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
603 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
604 | ||
605 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
606 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
607 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
608 | kmod 2 |
609 | ====== | |
610 | ||
611 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
612 | matched more than one module. | |
613 | ||
614 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
615 | - Get soft dependencies | |
616 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
617 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
618 | ||
619 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
620 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
621 | ||
622 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
623 | ||
624 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
625 | ||
626 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
627 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
628 | name obey a precedence order | |
629 | ||
630 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
631 | ||
632 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
633 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
634 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
635 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
636 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
637 | ||
638 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
639 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
640 | kmod 1 |
641 | ====== | |
ecd40ee4 | 642 | |
89eba7cb LDM |
643 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
644 | ||
645 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
646 | - List modules currently loaded | |
647 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
648 | holders, sections, address and size | |
649 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
650 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
651 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
652 | - Remove modules | |
653 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
654 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
655 | commands | |
656 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
657 | ||
658 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
659 | - kmod-lsmod | |
660 | - kmod-insmod | |
661 | - kmod-rmmod | |
662 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
663 | dump configuration, show modversions) |