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8885ced0 LDM |
1 | kmod 7 |
2 | ====== | |
3 | ||
4 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and | |
5 | udev: now the priority is: | |
6 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d | |
7 | 2. /run/modprobe.d | |
8 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d | |
9 | ||
10 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevents us from not | |
11 | allowing user to set his preference | |
12 | ||
13 | - Bug fixes: | |
14 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules | |
15 | with modprobe | |
16 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the | |
17 | same of the running kernel | |
18 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments | |
19 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe | |
20 | - | |
21 | ||
26906fe7 LDM |
22 | kmod 6 |
23 | ====== | |
24 | ||
25 | - New API in libkmod: | |
26 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a | |
27 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of | |
28 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() | |
29 | ||
30 | - More tests in testsuite | |
31 | ||
32 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again | |
33 | ||
34 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel | |
35 | ||
36 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages | |
37 | ||
38 | - Bug fixes: | |
39 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled | |
40 | - Infinite loop with softdeps | |
41 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands | |
42 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match | |
43 | ||
44 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org | |
45 | ||
e479598b LDM |
46 | kmod 5 |
47 | ====== | |
48 | ||
49 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts | |
50 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were | |
51 | sanitized. | |
52 | ||
53 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of | |
54 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of | |
55 | code between modprobe and libkmod | |
56 | ||
57 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or | |
58 | aliases now. | |
59 | ||
60 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and | |
61 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. | |
62 | ||
63 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config | |
64 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. | |
65 | ||
66 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names | |
67 | ||
68 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should | |
69 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other | |
70 | modules. | |
71 | ||
72 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong | |
73 | information in ARMv5 | |
74 | ||
75 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are | |
76 | enabled | |
77 | ||
b53b7e32 LDM |
78 | kmod 4 |
79 | ====== | |
80 | ||
81 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
82 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
83 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
84 | - Dump indexes | |
85 | ||
86 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
87 | ||
88 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
89 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
90 | ||
91 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
92 | ||
93 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
94 | ||
95 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
96 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
97 | script. | |
98 | ||
99 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
100 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
101 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
102 | kmod 3 |
103 | ====== | |
104 | ||
105 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
106 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
107 | - Get dependency symbols | |
108 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
109 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
110 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
111 | function. | |
112 | ||
113 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
114 | ||
115 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
116 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
117 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
118 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
119 | ||
120 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
121 | APIs in libkmod. | |
122 | ||
123 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
124 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
125 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
126 | ||
127 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
128 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
129 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
130 | kmod 2 |
131 | ====== | |
132 | ||
133 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
134 | matched more than one module. | |
135 | ||
136 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
137 | - Get soft dependencies | |
138 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
139 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
140 | ||
141 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
142 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
143 | ||
144 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
145 | ||
146 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
147 | ||
148 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
149 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
150 | name obey a precedence order | |
151 | ||
152 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
153 | ||
154 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
155 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
156 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
157 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
158 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
159 | ||
160 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
161 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
162 | kmod 1 |
163 | ====== | |
ecd40ee4 | 164 | |
89eba7cb LDM |
165 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
166 | ||
167 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
168 | - List modules currently loaded | |
169 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
170 | holders, sections, address and size | |
171 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
172 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
173 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
174 | - Remove modules | |
175 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
176 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
177 | commands | |
178 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
179 | ||
180 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
181 | - kmod-lsmod | |
182 | - kmod-insmod | |
183 | - kmod-rmmod | |
184 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
185 | dump configuration, show modversions) |