TODO

   1 Features:
   2 =========
   3
   4 * config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
   5   vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
   6   bsearch().
   7
   8 * index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one
   9   with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it.
  10
  11 * create test-mock library to be LD_PRELOAD'ed before running the binaries
  12   so we're able to create unit tests
  13
  14 * Add functions to dump configuration
  15
  16 * Add functions list all modules known by modules.dep
  17
  18 * provide 1:1 compatibility with module-init-tools's modprobe
  19    - dump configuration
  20    - 'modprobe -r' should remove modules which usecount became 0 because of
  21      module's removal
  22
  23 * provide depmod:
  24    - add missing libkmod-elf.c functions:
  25      - fetch_tables()
  26      - deref_sym() (used by fetch_tables)
  27    - add index writing functions to kmod-depmod.c
  28    - 1:1 compatible kmod-depmod.c
  29
  30 * review API, maybe unify all of these setters:
  31    - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
  32    - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
  33    - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
  34    - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
  35    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
  36    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
  37    - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
  38    - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
  39    - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
  40
  41 * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
  42   and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
  43   compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
  44   individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
  45   does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
  46   it. The file format should be something like:
  47      MAGIC-ID
  48      DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
  49      DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
  50      ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
  51   Helper binary to:
  52      kmod-archive list
  53      kmod-archive add path.ko
  54      kmod-archive rm path.ko
  55      kmod-archive get path.ko
  56      kmod-archive exists path.ko
  57
  58 Known Bugs:
  59 ===========
  60
  61
  62 Notes for future development:
  63 =============================
  64
  65 * Kill support for /etc/modprobe.conf
  66
  67 * Kill support for map files
  68
  69 Things to be added removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  70 ===================================================================
  71
  72 * list of currently loaded modules
  73
  74 * module's size should be available under /sys
  75
  76 * kill /proc/modules ?