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. 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
  22 * Add manpages: copy them from module-init-tools and make the necessary changes
  23
  24 * review API, maybe unify all of these setters:
  25    - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
  26    - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
  27    - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
  28    - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
  29    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
  30    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
  31    - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
  32    - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
  33    - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
  34
  35 * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
  36   and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
  37   compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
  38   individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
  39   does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
  40   it. The file format should be something like:
  41      MAGIC-ID
  42      DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
  43      DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
  44      ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
  45   Helper binary to:
  46      kmod-archive list
  47      kmod-archive add path.ko
  48      kmod-archive rm path.ko
  49      kmod-archive get path.ko
  50      kmod-archive exists path.ko
  51
  52 Known Bugs:
  53 ===========
  54
  55
  56 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  57 ===================================================================
  58
  59 * list of currently loaded modules
  60
  61 * module's size should be available under /sys
  62
  63 * kill /proc/modules ?
  64
  65 Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
  66 ===================================================================
  67
  68 modprobe
  69 --------
  70
  71 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
  72
  73 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
  74
  75 * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to kmod-modprobe so we
  76   can remove modules depending on that one
  77
  78 * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse configuration files whose name don't end on
  79   '.alias'  or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
  80
  81 * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
  82   files.
  83
  84 * we don't use <module-dir>/modules.builtin{,.bin} indexes. Instead we rely on
  85   module appearing on /sys/modules/* without a initstate file to determine if
  86   it is builtin.
  87
  88 * modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
  89   config:
  90
  91         install bli "echo bli"
  92         install bla "echo bla"
  93         softdep bla pre: bli
  94
  95   With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
  96         install "echo bla"
  97
  98   While with kmod:
  99         install "echo bli"
 100         install "echo bla"
 101
 102 depmod
 103 ------
 104
 105 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
 106
 107 lsmod
 108 -----
 109
 110 * information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules