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Introduce kmod-modinfo.
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1 Features:
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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
21 * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
22 and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
23 compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
24 individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
25 does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
26 it. The file format should be something like:
27 MAGIC-ID
28 DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
29 DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
30 ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
31 Helper binary to:
32 kmod-archive list
33 kmod-archive add path.ko
34 kmod-archive rm path.ko
35 kmod-archive get path.ko
36 kmod-archive exists path.ko
37
38 Known Bugs:
39 ===========
40
41
42 Notes for future development:
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44
45 * Kill support for /etc/modprobe.conf
46
47 * Kill support for map files
48
49 Things to be added removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
50 ===================================================================
51
52 * list of currently loaded modules
53
54 * module's size should be available under /sys
55
56 * kill /proc/modules ?