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