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 * unify code from modprobe and libkmod:
  36    - remove kmod_module_probe_insert() and turn it into
  37      kmod_module_probe_get_list(); this way modprobe can use it too
  38
  39 * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
  40   and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
  41   compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
  42   individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
  43   does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
  44   it. The file format should be something like:
  45      MAGIC-ID
  46      DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
  47      DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
  48      ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
  49   Helper binary to:
  50      kmod-archive list
  51      kmod-archive add path.ko
  52      kmod-archive rm path.ko
  53      kmod-archive get path.ko
  54      kmod-archive exists path.ko
  55
  56 Known Bugs:
  57 ===========
  58
  59
  60 Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
  61 ===================================================================
  62
  63 * list of currently loaded modules
  64
  65 * module's size should be available under /sys
  66
  67 * kill /proc/modules ?
  68
  69 Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
  70 ===================================================================
  71
  72 modprobe
  73 --------
  74
  75 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
  76
  77 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
  78
  79 * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to kmod-modprobe so we
  80   can remove modules depending on that one
  81
  82 * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse configuration files whose name don't end on
  83   '.alias'  or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
  84
  85 * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
  86   files.
  87
  88 * we don't use <module-dir>/modules.builtin{,.bin} indexes. Instead we rely on
  89   module appearing on /sys/modules/* without a initstate file to determine if
  90   it is builtin.
  91
  92 * modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
  93   config:
  94
  95         install bli "echo bli"
  96         install bla "echo bla"
  97         softdep bla pre: bli
  98
  99   With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
 100         install "echo bla"
 101
 102   While with kmod:
 103         install "echo bli"
 104         install "echo bla"
 105
 106 depmod
 107 ------
 108
 109 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
 110
 111 lsmod
 112 -----
 113
 114 * information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules