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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. Create a list with the config items
15 (blacklist, aliases, etc) or just dump to a fd?
16
17 * Add functions to list all modules known by modules.dep
18
19 * provide 1:1 compatibility with module-init-tools's modprobe
20 - dump configuration
21 - 'modprobe -r' should remove modules which usecount became 0 because of
22 module's removal
23
24 * Add kmod_validate(). It checks if all config files and indexes are still
25 valid. We need to save the mtime of each config dir when starting up and when
26 this function is called we stat the dir and compare the mtimes.
27
28 * review API, maybe unify all of these setters:
29 - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
30 - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
31 - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
32 - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
33 - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
34 - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
35 - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
36 - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
37 - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
38
39 * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
40 and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
41 compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
42 individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
43 does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
44 it. The file format should be something like:
45 MAGIC-ID
46 DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
47 DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
48 ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
49 Helper binary to:
50 kmod-archive list
51 kmod-archive add path.ko
52 kmod-archive rm path.ko
53 kmod-archive get path.ko
54 kmod-archive exists path.ko
55
56 Known Bugs:
57 ===========
58
59
60 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
61 ===================================================================
62
63 * list of currently loaded modules
64
65 * module's size should be available under /sys
66
67 * kill /proc/modules ?