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26906fe7 LDM |
1 | kmod 6 |
2 | ====== | |
3 | ||
4 | - New API in libkmod: | |
5 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a | |
6 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of | |
7 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() | |
8 | ||
9 | - More tests in testsuite | |
10 | ||
11 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again | |
12 | ||
13 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel | |
14 | ||
15 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages | |
16 | ||
17 | - Bug fixes: | |
18 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled | |
19 | - Infinite loop with softdeps | |
20 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands | |
21 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match | |
22 | ||
23 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org | |
24 | ||
e479598b LDM |
25 | kmod 5 |
26 | ====== | |
27 | ||
28 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts | |
29 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were | |
30 | sanitized. | |
31 | ||
32 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of | |
33 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of | |
34 | code between modprobe and libkmod | |
35 | ||
36 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or | |
37 | aliases now. | |
38 | ||
39 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and | |
40 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. | |
41 | ||
42 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config | |
43 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. | |
44 | ||
45 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names | |
46 | ||
47 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should | |
48 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other | |
49 | modules. | |
50 | ||
51 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong | |
52 | information in ARMv5 | |
53 | ||
54 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are | |
55 | enabled | |
56 | ||
b53b7e32 LDM |
57 | kmod 4 |
58 | ====== | |
59 | ||
60 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
61 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
62 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
63 | - Dump indexes | |
64 | ||
65 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
66 | ||
67 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
68 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
69 | ||
70 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
71 | ||
72 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
73 | ||
74 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
75 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
76 | script. | |
77 | ||
78 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
79 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
80 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
81 | kmod 3 |
82 | ====== | |
83 | ||
84 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
85 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
86 | - Get dependency symbols | |
87 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
88 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
89 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
90 | function. | |
91 | ||
92 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
93 | ||
94 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
95 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
96 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
97 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
98 | ||
99 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
100 | APIs in libkmod. | |
101 | ||
102 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
103 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
104 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
105 | ||
106 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
107 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
108 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
109 | kmod 2 |
110 | ====== | |
111 | ||
112 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
113 | matched more than one module. | |
114 | ||
115 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
116 | - Get soft dependencies | |
117 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
118 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
119 | ||
120 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
121 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
122 | ||
123 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
124 | ||
125 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
126 | ||
127 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
128 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
129 | name obey a precedence order | |
130 | ||
131 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
132 | ||
133 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
134 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
135 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
136 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
137 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
138 | ||
139 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
140 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
141 | kmod 1 |
142 | ====== | |
ecd40ee4 | 143 | |
89eba7cb LDM |
144 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
145 | ||
146 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
147 | - List modules currently loaded | |
148 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
149 | holders, sections, address and size | |
150 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
151 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
152 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
153 | - Remove modules | |
154 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
155 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
156 | commands | |
157 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
158 | ||
159 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
160 | - kmod-lsmod | |
161 | - kmod-insmod | |
162 | - kmod-rmmod | |
163 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
164 | dump configuration, show modversions) |