TODO

   1 Features:
   2 =========
   3
   4 * testsuite:
   5    - when fake delete_module() succeeds, remove its entry from /sys/module
   6
   7 * review API, maybe unify all of these getters:
   8    - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
   9    - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
  10    - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
  11    - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
  12    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
  13    - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
  14    - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
  15    - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
  16    - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list(
  17
  18    Main reason for this is that they need to open and read the module to get
  19    this information. If module is compressed, that means uncompressing +
  20    allocating necessary space + deallocating for each of them. depmod uses most
  21    of these functions and in the end it uncompresses the module ~6x times more
  22    than needed, which makes depmod very slow if compared to module-init-tools.
  23
  24    We might want to either cache the elf file within kmod_module or create
  25    another struct that the user ref()/unref().
  26
  27 * Stop using system() inside the library and use fork + exec instead
  28
  29 * config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
  30   vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
  31   bsearch().
  32
  33 * index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one
  34   with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it.
  35
  36 * Implement actions in kmod tool like 'insert', 'remove', 'info', etc
  37
  38 * Finish removal of "rmmod -w" when it's gone from kernel.
  39
  40 * Deprecate not using KMOD_REMOVE_NOWAIT on libkmod.
  41
  42 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  43 ===================================================================
  44
  45 * list of currently loaded modules
  46         - readdir() in /sys/modules: dir without a 'initstate' file means the
  47           module is builtin.
  48
  49 * module's size should be available under /sys
  50         - DONE in 3.3: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=cca3e707301862ca9b9327e6a732463982f8cd1b
  51
  52 * kill /proc/modules ?
  53         - Unlikely, given other tools might depend on it
  54
  55 Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
  56 ===================================================================
  57
  58 modprobe
  59 --------
  60
  61 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
  62
  63 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
  64
  65 * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to modprobe so we
  66   can remove modules depending on that one
  67
  68 * modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
  69   '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
  70
  71 * modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
  72   files.
  73
  74 * modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
  75   config:
  76
  77         install bli "echo bli"
  78         install bla "echo bla"
  79         softdep bla pre: bli
  80
  81   With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
  82         install "echo bla"
  83
  84   While with kmod:
  85         install "echo bli"
  86         install "echo bla"
  87
  88 * kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
  89   dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
  90   are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
  91   kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
  92   of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
  93
  94 depmod
  95 ------
  96
  97 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
  98
  99 lsmod
 100 -----
 101
 102 * information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules