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