NEWS

   1 kmod 10
   2 =======
   3
   4 - New features:
   5         - Read coresize from /sys if supported
   6
   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.
   9           This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools
  10           and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module.
  11
  12 - Better formatting in man pages
  13
  14 - Add option to disable building man pages at build time
  15
  16 - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries
  17
  18 - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL
  19
  20 kmod 9
  21 ======
  22
  23 - Improvements to the testsuite:
  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
  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
  32
  33 kmod 8
  34 ======
  35
  36 - No new features, small bug fixes only.
  37         - Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with
  38           module-init-tools
  39
  40         - Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad
  41           parameter or unknown symbols
  42
  43         - Fix doc generation
  44
  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
  54 - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not
  55   allowing the user to set his preferences.
  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
  64
  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
  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
 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
 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
 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
 205 kmod 1
 206 ======
 207
 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)