TODO

   1 Features:
   2 =========
   3
   4 * Implement actions in kmod tool like 'insert', 'remove', 'info', etc
   5
   6 * testsuite:
   7    - when fake delete_module() succeeds, remove its entry from /sys/module
   8
   9 * Stop using system() inside the library and use fork + exec instead
  10
  11 * config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
  12   vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
  13   bsearch().
  14
  15 * review API, maybe unify all of these getters:
  16    - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
  17    - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
  18    - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
  19    - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
  20    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
  21    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
  22    - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
  23    - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
  24    - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
  25
  26 * index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one
  27   with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it.
  28
  29 * Finish removal of "rmmod -w" when it's gone from kernel.
  30
  31 * Deprecate not using KMOD_REMOVE_NOWAIT on libkmod.
  32
  33 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  34 ===================================================================
  35
  36 * list of currently loaded modules
  37         - readdir() in /sys/modules: dir without a 'initstate' file means the
  38           module is builtin.
  39
  40 * kill /proc/modules ?
  41         - Unlikely, given other tools might depend on it
  42
  43
  44
  45 Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
  46 ===================================================================
  47
  48 modprobe
  49 --------
  50
  51 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
  52
  53 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
  54
  55 * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to modprobe so we
  56   can remove modules depending on that one
  57
  58 * modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
  59   '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
  60
  61 * modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
  62   files.
  63
  64 * modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
  65   config:
  66
  67         install bli "echo bli"
  68         install bla "echo bla"
  69         softdep bla pre: bli
  70
  71   With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
  72         install "echo bla"
  73
  74   While with kmod:
  75         install "echo bli"
  76         install "echo bla"
  77
  78 * kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
  79   dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
  80   are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
  81   kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
  82   of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
  83
  84 depmod
  85 ------
  86
  87 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
  88
  89 lsmod
  90 -----
  91
  92 * information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules