TODO

   1 Features:
   2 =========
   3
   4 * testsuite:
   5    - when fake delete_module() succeeds, remove its entry from /sys/module
   6
   7 * unify logging functions of tools/{modprobe.c,depmod.c,...}
   8
   9 * review API, maybe unify all of these getters:
  10    - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
  11    - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
  12    - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
  13    - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
  14    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
  15    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
  16    - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
  17    - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
  18    - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
  19
  20 * Stop using system() inside the library and use fork + exec instead
  21
  22 * config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
  23   vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
  24   bsearch().
  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 * Implement actions in kmod tool like 'insert', 'remove', 'info', etc
  30
  31 * Finish removal of "rmmod -w" when it's gone from kernel.
  32
  33 * Deprecate not using KMOD_REMOVE_NOWAIT on libkmod.
  34
  35 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  36 ===================================================================
  37
  38 * list of currently loaded modules
  39         - readdir() in /sys/modules: dir without a 'initstate' file means the
  40           module is builtin.
  41
  42 * module's size should be available under /sys
  43         - DONE in 3.3: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=cca3e707301862ca9b9327e6a732463982f8cd1b
  44
  45 * kill /proc/modules ?
  46         - Unlikely, given other tools might depend on it
  47
  48 Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
  49 ===================================================================
  50
  51 modprobe
  52 --------
  53
  54 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
  55
  56 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
  57
  58 * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to modprobe so we
  59   can remove modules depending on that one
  60
  61 * modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
  62   '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
  63
  64 * modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
  65   files.
  66
  67 * modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
  68   config:
  69
  70         install bli "echo bli"
  71         install bla "echo bla"
  72         softdep bla pre: bli
  73
  74   With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
  75         install "echo bla"
  76
  77   While with kmod:
  78         install "echo bli"
  79         install "echo bla"
  80
  81 * kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
  82   dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
  83   are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
  84   kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
  85   of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
  86
  87 depmod
  88 ------
  89
  90 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
  91
  92 lsmod
  93 -----
  94
  95 * information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules