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    - deal with dependency loop
  22    - break dependency loop when all it needs is to check if the module is
  23      already loaded
  24
  25 * Add manpages: copy them from module-init-tools and make the necessary changes
  26
  27 * review API, maybe unify all of these setters:
  28    - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
  29    - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
  30    - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
  31    - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
  32    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
  33    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
  34    - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
  35    - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
  36    - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
  37
  38 * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
  39   and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
  40   compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
  41   individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
  42   does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
  43   it. The file format should be something like:
  44      MAGIC-ID
  45      DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
  46      DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
  47      ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
  48   Helper binary to:
  49      kmod-archive list
  50      kmod-archive add path.ko
  51      kmod-archive rm path.ko
  52      kmod-archive get path.ko
  53      kmod-archive exists path.ko
  54
  55 Known Bugs:
  56 ===========
  57
  58
  59 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  60 ===================================================================
  61
  62 * list of currently loaded modules
  63
  64 * module's size should be available under /sys
  65
  66 * kill /proc/modules ?
  67
  68 Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
  69 ===================================================================
  70
  71 modprobe
  72 --------
  73
  74 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
  75
  76 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
  77
  78 * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to kmod-modprobe so we
  79   can remove modules depending on that one
  80
  81 * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse configuration files whose name don't end on
  82   '.alias'  or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
  83
  84 * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
  85   files.
  86
  87 depmod
  88 ------
  89
  90 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone