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b53b7e32 LDM |
1 | kmod 4 |
2 | ====== | |
3 | ||
4 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
5 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
6 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
7 | - Dump indexes | |
8 | ||
9 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
10 | ||
11 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
12 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
13 | ||
14 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
15 | ||
16 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
17 | ||
18 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
19 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
20 | script. | |
21 | ||
22 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
23 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
24 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
25 | kmod 3 |
26 | ====== | |
27 | ||
28 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
29 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
30 | - Get dependency symbols | |
31 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
32 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
33 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
34 | function. | |
35 | ||
36 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
37 | ||
38 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
39 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
40 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
41 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
42 | ||
43 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
44 | APIs in libkmod. | |
45 | ||
46 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
47 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
48 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
49 | ||
50 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
51 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
52 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
53 | kmod 2 |
54 | ====== | |
55 | ||
56 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
57 | matched more than one module. | |
58 | ||
59 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
60 | - Get soft dependencies | |
61 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
62 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
63 | ||
64 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
65 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
66 | ||
67 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
68 | ||
69 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
70 | ||
71 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
72 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
73 | name obey a precedence order | |
74 | ||
75 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
76 | ||
77 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
78 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
79 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
80 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
81 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
82 | ||
83 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
84 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
85 | kmod 1 |
86 | ====== | |
ecd40ee4 | 87 | |
89eba7cb LDM |
88 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
89 | ||
90 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
91 | - List modules currently loaded | |
92 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
93 | holders, sections, address and size | |
94 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
95 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
96 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
97 | - Remove modules | |
98 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
99 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
100 | commands | |
101 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
102 | ||
103 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
104 | - kmod-lsmod | |
105 | - kmod-insmod | |
106 | - kmod-rmmod | |
107 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
108 | dump configuration, show modversions) |