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b3e19ce9 LDM |
1 | kmod 15 |
2 | ======= | |
3 | ||
4 | - Bug fixes: | |
5 | - kmod static-nodes doesn't fail if modules.devname isn't available | |
18811d22 LDM |
6 | - Fix getting boolean parameter from kernel cmdline in case the value |
7 | is omitted | |
8 | - Fix some mkdir_p() corner cases (used in testsuite and static-nodes) | |
b3e19ce9 LDM |
9 | |
10 | - New features: | |
11 | - kmod static-nodes creates parent directories if given a -o option | |
18811d22 LDM |
12 | - kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested |
13 | in the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from | |
14 | installing the library | |
15 | - Add shell completion for kmod tool | |
b3e19ce9 | 16 | |
3b38c7fc LDM |
17 | kmod 14 |
18 | ======= | |
19 | ||
20 | - Bug fixes: | |
21 | - Fix some format strings | |
22 | - Protect against NULL being passed around to index | |
23 | - Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available, | |
24 | since this doesn't always work | |
25 | - Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's | |
26 | refcount | |
27 | - Minor fixes and refactors | |
28 | ||
29 | - New features: | |
30 | - Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt | |
31 | with. | |
32 | - Remove ability to build a static libkmod | |
33 | - Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname | |
34 | generating output in useful formats | |
35 | ||
abb910eb LDM |
36 | kmod 13 |
37 | ======= | |
38 | ||
39 | - Bug fixes: | |
40 | - Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent) | |
41 | and fix its behavior | |
42 | - Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias | |
43 | psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of | |
44 | modutils | |
45 | ||
46 | - New features: | |
47 | - Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from | |
48 | the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when | |
49 | available, falling back to init_module() otherwise | |
50 | - kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is | |
51 | signed and modinfo uses it | |
52 | - Use secure_getenv if available | |
53 | - rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does | |
54 | - Improve compatibility with musl-libc | |
55 | - Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are | |
56 | xfail tests | |
57 | ||
6feba028 LDM |
58 | kmod 12 |
59 | ======= | |
60 | ||
61 | - Bug fixes: | |
62 | - Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module | |
63 | - Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we | |
64 | need to mangle the section header, not the section. | |
65 | - modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path | |
66 | contains ".ko" substring | |
67 | ||
c599606f LDM |
68 | kmod 11 |
69 | ======= | |
70 | ||
71 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
72 | - Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems | |
73 | - Allow to check generated files against correct ones | |
74 | ||
75 | - New features: | |
76 | - libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to | |
77 | kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This | |
78 | reduces signficantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to | |
79 | execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used. | |
80 | - Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea | |
81 | after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then | |
82 | benefits. | |
83 | - Hide --wait option on rmmod. This feature is being targeted for | |
84 | removal from kernel. rmmod still accepts this option, but it's hidden | |
85 | now: man page and usage() says nothing about it and if it's used, | |
86 | user will get a 10s sleep. This way we can check and help if anyone | |
87 | is using this feature. | |
88 | - Refactor message logging on all tools, giving proper prefix, routing | |
89 | everything to syslog when asked for, etc. | |
90 | ||
91 | - Bug fixes: | |
92 | - Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules | |
93 | - Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr | |
94 | - Fix memory leak in hash implementation | |
95 | ||
40758602 LDM |
96 | kmod 10 |
97 | ======= | |
98 | ||
99 | - New features: | |
100 | - Read coresize from /sys if supported | |
101 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
102 | - Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during |
103 | probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default. | |
40758602 | 104 | This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools |
a7fbae03 | 105 | and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module. |
40758602 LDM |
106 | |
107 | - Better formatting in man pages | |
108 | ||
a7fbae03 | 109 | - Add option to disable building man pages at build time |
40758602 | 110 | |
a7fbae03 | 111 | - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries |
40758602 LDM |
112 | |
113 | - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL | |
114 | ||
62081c0f LDM |
115 | kmod 9 |
116 | ====== | |
117 | ||
a7fbae03 | 118 | - Improvements to the testsuite: |
62081c0f LDM |
119 | - Check for correct handling of softdep loops |
120 | - Check for correct handling of install command loops | |
121 | ||
122 | - Bug fixes: | |
123 | - Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections | |
a7fbae03 JE |
124 | - Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules |
125 | - depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up | |
126 | with a corrupted index without telling the user | |
62081c0f | 127 | |
46684bc2 LDM |
128 | kmod 8 |
129 | ====== | |
130 | ||
131 | - No new features, small bug fixes only. | |
a7fbae03 | 132 | - Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with |
46684bc2 LDM |
133 | module-init-tools |
134 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
135 | - Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad |
136 | parameter or unknown symbols | |
46684bc2 LDM |
137 | |
138 | - Fix doc generation | |
139 | ||
8885ced0 LDM |
140 | kmod 7 |
141 | ====== | |
142 | ||
143 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and | |
144 | udev: now the priority is: | |
145 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d | |
146 | 2. /run/modprobe.d | |
147 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d | |
148 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
149 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not |
150 | allowing the user to set his preferences. | |
8885ced0 LDM |
151 | |
152 | - Bug fixes: | |
153 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules | |
154 | with modprobe | |
155 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the | |
156 | same of the running kernel | |
157 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments | |
158 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe | |
8885ced0 | 159 | |
26906fe7 LDM |
160 | kmod 6 |
161 | ====== | |
162 | ||
163 | - New API in libkmod: | |
164 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a | |
165 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of | |
166 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() | |
167 | ||
168 | - More tests in testsuite | |
169 | ||
170 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again | |
171 | ||
172 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel | |
173 | ||
174 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages | |
175 | ||
176 | - Bug fixes: | |
177 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled | |
178 | - Infinite loop with softdeps | |
179 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands | |
180 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match | |
181 | ||
182 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org | |
183 | ||
e479598b LDM |
184 | kmod 5 |
185 | ====== | |
186 | ||
187 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts | |
188 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were | |
189 | sanitized. | |
190 | ||
191 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of | |
192 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of | |
193 | code between modprobe and libkmod | |
194 | ||
195 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or | |
196 | aliases now. | |
197 | ||
198 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and | |
199 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. | |
200 | ||
201 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config | |
202 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. | |
203 | ||
204 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names | |
205 | ||
206 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should | |
207 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other | |
208 | modules. | |
209 | ||
210 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong | |
211 | information in ARMv5 | |
212 | ||
213 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are | |
214 | enabled | |
215 | ||
b53b7e32 LDM |
216 | kmod 4 |
217 | ====== | |
218 | ||
219 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
220 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
221 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
222 | - Dump indexes | |
223 | ||
224 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
225 | ||
226 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
227 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
228 | ||
229 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
230 | ||
231 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
232 | ||
233 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
234 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
235 | script. | |
236 | ||
237 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
238 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
239 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
240 | kmod 3 |
241 | ====== | |
242 | ||
243 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
244 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
245 | - Get dependency symbols | |
246 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
247 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
248 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
249 | function. | |
250 | ||
251 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
252 | ||
253 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
254 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
255 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
256 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
257 | ||
258 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
259 | APIs in libkmod. | |
260 | ||
261 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
262 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
263 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
264 | ||
265 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
266 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
267 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
268 | kmod 2 |
269 | ====== | |
270 | ||
271 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
272 | matched more than one module. | |
273 | ||
274 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
275 | - Get soft dependencies | |
276 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
277 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
278 | ||
279 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
280 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
281 | ||
282 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
283 | ||
284 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
285 | ||
286 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
287 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
288 | name obey a precedence order | |
289 | ||
290 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
291 | ||
292 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
293 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
294 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
295 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
296 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
297 | ||
298 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
299 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
300 | kmod 1 |
301 | ====== | |
ecd40ee4 | 302 | |
89eba7cb LDM |
303 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
304 | ||
305 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
306 | - List modules currently loaded | |
307 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
308 | holders, sections, address and size | |
309 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
310 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
311 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
312 | - Remove modules | |
313 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
314 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
315 | commands | |
316 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
317 | ||
318 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
319 | - kmod-lsmod | |
320 | - kmod-insmod | |
321 | - kmod-rmmod | |
322 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
323 | dump configuration, show modversions) |