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| b30a71b8 LDM |
1 | kmod 3 |
| 2 | ====== | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
| 5 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
| 6 | - Get dependency symbols | |
| 7 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
| 8 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
| 9 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
| 10 | function. | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
| 15 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
| 16 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
| 17 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
| 20 | APIs in libkmod. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
| 23 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
| 24 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
| 27 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
| 28 | ||
| acc18b14 LDM |
29 | kmod 2 |
| 30 | ====== | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
| 33 | matched more than one module. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
| 36 | - Get soft dependencies | |
| 37 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
| 38 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
| 41 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
| 48 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
| 49 | name obey a precedence order | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
| 54 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
| 55 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
| 56 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
| 57 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
| 60 | ||
| 89eba7cb LDM |
61 | kmod 1 |
| 62 | ====== | |
| ecd40ee4 | 63 | |
| 89eba7cb LDM |
64 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
| 67 | - List modules currently loaded | |
| 68 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
| 69 | holders, sections, address and size | |
| 70 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
| 71 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
| 72 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
| 73 | - Remove modules | |
| 74 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
| 75 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
| 76 | commands | |
| 77 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
| 80 | - kmod-lsmod | |
| 81 | - kmod-insmod | |
| 82 | - kmod-rmmod | |
| 83 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
| 84 | dump configuration, show modversions) |