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58133a96 LDM |
1 | kmod 26 |
2 | ======= | |
3 | ||
4 | - Improvements | |
5 | - Add more error-checking in library functions and remove warnings on newer | |
6 | toolchains | |
7 | ||
8 | - Depmod now handles parallel invoctions better by protecting the temporary | |
9 | files being used | |
10 | ||
11 | - Improvements to testsuite and added tests to check the our behavior | |
12 | regardless of the features enabled in the kernel, or libraries we link to | |
13 | ||
14 | - Teach the --show-exports option to modprobe. This works similarly to | |
15 | --show-modversions, but it reports the exported symbols from that module. | |
16 | Under the hood this reads the .symtab and .strtab section rather than | |
17 | __versions so it shows useful data even if kernel is configured without | |
18 | modversions (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) | |
19 | ||
20 | - Teach pkcs7 parsing to modinfo by using openssl. This allows modinfo to | |
21 | correctly parse the signature appended to a module by the kernel build | |
22 | system when configured with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL, or when externally | |
23 | signed by the distro. Traditionally modules were signed and a struct | |
24 | was appended together with the signature to the end of the module. | |
25 | This has changed on the kernel for pkcs#7 and now the structure isn't | |
26 | filled out with useful information. So we have to parse the signature | |
27 | block in order to return useful data to the user. | |
28 | ||
29 | If kmod is linked with openssl we parse the signature and return the | |
30 | fields as we do for other signatures. An example of the relevant part | |
31 | on the output of modinfo is below: | |
32 | ||
33 | Before: | |
34 | sig_id: PKCS#7 | |
35 | signer: | |
36 | sig_key: | |
37 | sig_hashalgo: md4 | |
38 | After: | |
39 | sig_id: PKCS#7 | |
40 | signer: Fedora kernel signing key | |
41 | sig_key: 51:C4:0C:6D:7E:A5:6C:D8:8F:B4:3A:DF:91:78:4F:18:BC:D5:E4:C5 | |
42 | sig_hashalgo: sha256 | |
43 | ||
44 | If kmod is not linked to openssl we just start printing "unknonwn" in the | |
45 | sig_hashalgo field rather than the bogus value. | |
46 | ||
47 | ||
aca4eca1 LDM |
48 | kmod 25 |
49 | ======= | |
50 | ||
51 | - Improvements | |
52 | - Add module signature to modinfo output | |
53 | ||
54 | - Add support for external directories in depmod: now there's a new | |
55 | "external" keyword parsed by depmod when calculating the dependencies. | |
56 | It allows to add modules to other directories which are not relative | |
57 | to where the modules are commonly installed. This results in | |
58 | modules.dep and friends now understanding absolute paths rather than | |
59 | relative paths only. For more information see depmod.d(1). | |
60 | ||
61 | - Add support for CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS | |
62 | ||
63 | - Add missing documentation references in man pages | |
64 | ||
65 | - Handle the case in which module has a .TOC symbol already while | |
66 | calculating dependencies | |
67 | ||
68 | - Improve testsuite and allow to use mkosi to run testsuite in different | |
69 | distros | |
70 | ||
ef4257b5 LDM |
71 | kmod 24 |
72 | ======= | |
73 | ||
74 | - Improvements: | |
75 | - Add more information on dependency loop | |
76 | ||
77 | - Sanitize use of strcpy and allow to grow from small strings on stack | |
78 | (common case) to bigger strings on heap when needed | |
79 | ||
80 | - Bug fixes | |
81 | - Fix wrong dependency loops being reported by depmod | |
82 | ||
83 | - Fix crashes when reporting dependency loops | |
84 | ||
85 | - Fix parsing kernel command line containing quotes | |
86 | ||
87 | - Fix leaks on error paths | |
88 | ||
a29268d0 LDM |
89 | kmod 23 |
90 | ======= | |
91 | ||
92 | - Improvements: | |
93 | - Don't add comment to modules.devname if it would otherwise be empty | |
94 | to play nice with tools detecting empty files | |
95 | ||
96 | - Allow building with BSD sed, that doesn't have -E flag | |
97 | ||
98 | - Ignore .TOC. symbols in depmod parsing as it's for PPC64 the | |
99 | equivalent of _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ | |
100 | ||
101 | - Teach modinfo about PKCS#7 module signatures: it doesn't add any | |
102 | other info besides telling the user the module is signed since | |
103 | kernel doesn't add other info on the module section | |
104 | ||
105 | - Bug fixes | |
106 | ||
107 | - Fix -s and -p compat options to insmod triggering force flag | |
108 | ||
109 | - Fix long lines from /proc/modules not being handled correctly by | |
110 | kmod_module_new_from_loaded() and kmod_module_get_size() and several | |
111 | other library functions that use them | |
112 | ||
113 | - Fix crash on modinfo while checking for available signature of | |
114 | unknown type | |
115 | ||
116 | - Fix documentation generation with gtk-doc | |
117 | ||
42f32b8a LDM |
118 | kmod 22 |
119 | ======= | |
120 | ||
121 | - Tools: | |
122 | - Change defaul log level for tools to WARNING rather than ERROR and update | |
123 | some log levels for current messages | |
124 | ||
125 | - depmod doesn't fallback to uname if a bad version is passed in the command | |
126 | line anymore. We just exit with an error. | |
127 | ||
128 | - insmod was taught the -f flag, just like in modprobe. It was previously | |
129 | silently ignoring it. | |
130 | ||
131 | - libkmod | |
132 | - New kmod_get_dirname() API to get the module directory set in the | |
133 | context | |
134 | ||
135 | - Bug fixes: | |
136 | - Fix return code in error path of kmod_module_insert_module(). We were | |
137 | previously returning ENOSYS rather than ENOENT. | |
138 | ||
2bfcd7ef LDM |
139 | kmod 21 |
140 | ======= | |
141 | ||
142 | - New features: | |
143 | - kmod tool started to learn the "insert" and "remove" commands that | |
144 | are the simplified versions of the older modprobe tool. These | |
145 | commands are still work in progress so they are hidden behind a | |
146 | --enable-experimental flag during build. It should not be enabled | |
147 | unless you know what you're doing. | |
148 | - kmod tool now prints the relevant configuration options it was built | |
149 | with when the "--version" argument is passed. This helps to mitigate | |
150 | problems for example when the user is trying to load a compressed | |
151 | module but kmod was built without support for the compression method. | |
152 | ||
153 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
154 | - Cache built modules so it is easier to run "make check" on build | |
155 | servers by distro maintainers. If kmod is configured with | |
156 | --disable-test-modules the modules from cache will be used by | |
157 | "make check". No changes to the tests are needed and all of them | |
158 | can run fine. | |
159 | ||
d9c71758 LDM |
160 | kmod 20 |
161 | ======= | |
162 | - Bug fixes: | |
163 | - Handle bogus values from ELF, making sure they don't overflow while | |
164 | parsing the file | |
165 | - Fix leak in depmod when -b flag is passed multiple times | |
166 | - Multiple minor fixes from static analysis by coverity and | |
167 | clang-analyze | |
168 | - Fix race between loading modules and checking if it's loaded in the | |
169 | kernel | |
170 | ||
171 | - New features: | |
172 | - There's a change in behavior regarding builtin modules: we now only | |
173 | consider as builtin those that are present in modules.builtin index. | |
174 | Previously we were also checking the presence of | |
175 | /sys/module/<module-name>, but this is racy and only modules that | |
176 | contain parameters are the ones creating a directory in sysfs. | |
177 | ||
178 | Now some commands will start to fail, e.g. "modprobe vt". Since vt | |
179 | can't be compiled as a module it's not present in modules.builtin | |
180 | index. Previously we would report at as builtin, but now we fail | |
181 | because we couldn't find the module. | |
182 | ||
183 | - Improvements: | |
184 | - Integration of gcov into the build. Currently libkmod is at ~70% | |
185 | covered and tools at ~50% by tests in the testsuite. Utility | |
186 | functions and structures in shared have more than 90% of coverage. | |
187 | - Upload build to coverity | |
188 | ||
189 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
190 | - Fix parsing return codes of init_module() calls | |
191 | - Add tests for utility functions in shared/ | |
192 | - Add tests for kmod_module_remove_module() | |
193 | - Add playground, in which our own modules are compiled | |
194 | - Port all tests to use modules from module-playground instead of | |
195 | copying prebuilt modules to the repository | |
196 | - Properly handle binaries that exit with no output | |
197 | - Besides comparing the output of commands, allow to copy to | |
198 | stdout/stderr | |
199 | ||
f9e2167b LDM |
200 | kmod 19 |
201 | ======= | |
202 | ||
203 | - Bug fixes: | |
204 | - Fix missing CLOEXEC in library | |
205 | - Fix error message while opening kmod's index | |
206 | ||
207 | - New features: | |
208 | - Add kmod(8) man page | |
209 | - Allow to build with libc's without be32toh() | |
210 | - Move code around separating common code and data structures into a | |
211 | shared directory. This allows to share more code between library and | |
3b058610 | 212 | tools, making the binary size of tools smaller. |
f9e2167b | 213 | - Clarify tools vs library licenses |
3b058610 | 214 | - static-nodes: when writing in tmpfiles format, indicate that |
f9e2167b LDM |
215 | creation of static nodes should only happen at boot. This is used and |
216 | required by systemd-217+. | |
217 | ||
218 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
219 | - Add tests for newly created shared/ code | |
220 | - Improve how tests are declared so there's less boilerplate code for | |
221 | each test. | |
222 | ||
ae58de0f LDM |
223 | kmod 18 |
224 | ======= | |
225 | ||
226 | - Bug fixes: | |
227 | - Fix leaks in error paths | |
228 | - Fix use-after-free in hash implementation causing a wrong index to be | |
229 | generated by depmod with out-of-tree modules | |
230 | ||
231 | - New features: | |
232 | - Calling depmod with modules creating a dependency loop will now make | |
233 | depmod return an error and not update the indexes. This is to protect | |
234 | the current index not being overridden by another index that may cause | |
235 | a boot failure, depending on the buggy module. It's a necessary | |
236 | change in behavior regarding previous kmod releases and | |
237 | module-init-tools. The error message was also improved to output | |
238 | the modules that caused the dependency cycle. | |
239 | ||
240 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
241 | - Fix and improve expected-fail test | |
242 | - Add tests for hashmap implementation | |
243 | ||
49d8e0b5 LDM |
244 | kmod 17 |
245 | ======= | |
246 | ||
247 | - Bug fixes: | |
248 | - Fix matching a "." in kernel cmdline, making garbage in the command | |
249 | line be parsed as kmod options | |
250 | - Fix man pages to clarify we don't fallback to parsing modules.dep | |
251 | but instead we depend on modules.dep.bin (generated by depmod) to | |
252 | be present | |
253 | - Fix ELF parsing on 32 bit systems assigning the wrong class. | |
254 | - Fix partial matches of search directives in depmod. Previously having | |
255 | a line in depmod.conf such as "search foo foobar built-in" would cause | |
256 | unpretictable results because foo is a partial match of foobar as well. | |
257 | - Fix unaligned access in modinfo when getting the signature from a | |
258 | module | |
259 | - Make sure softdeps are treated as optional dependencies | |
260 | ||
261 | - New features: | |
262 | - Accept special files given to "-C" switch in modprobe. This way it's | |
263 | possible to skip system configuration with "modprobe -C /dev/null" | |
264 | - Do not require xsltproc on released tarballs | |
265 | - Don't use Werror anymore | |
266 | - Add experimental python bindings, merged from python-kmod repository | |
267 | (https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod) | |
268 | - Parse softdeps exported by the kernel as | |
269 | /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep | |
270 | ||
271 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
272 | - Check the list of loaded modules after a test | |
273 | ||
7ab88044 LDM |
274 | kmod 16 |
275 | ======= | |
276 | ||
8f67ab53 LDM |
277 | - Bug fixes: |
278 | - Fix usage of readdir_r() | |
36c4bb92 | 279 | - Add some missing checks for memory allocation errors |
8f67ab53 | 280 | |
7ab88044 LDM |
281 | - New features: |
282 | - Remove option from libkmod to allow waiting on module removal if | |
283 | the module is being used. It's dangerous since it can block the | |
284 | caller indefinitely. | |
8f67ab53 LDM |
285 | - Improve compatibility with musl libc |
286 | - Add fallback implementation for compilers without _Static_assert(), | |
287 | e.g. gcc < 4.6 | |
288 | - Minor optimizations to the hash table | |
289 | - Make depmod warn if a module has incorrect devname specification | |
36c4bb92 | 290 | - Use cleanup attribute |
7ab88044 | 291 | |
b3e19ce9 LDM |
292 | kmod 15 |
293 | ======= | |
294 | ||
295 | - Bug fixes: | |
296 | - kmod static-nodes doesn't fail if modules.devname isn't available | |
18811d22 LDM |
297 | - Fix getting boolean parameter from kernel cmdline in case the value |
298 | is omitted | |
299 | - Fix some mkdir_p() corner cases (used in testsuite and static-nodes) | |
b3e19ce9 LDM |
300 | |
301 | - New features: | |
302 | - kmod static-nodes creates parent directories if given a -o option | |
18811d22 LDM |
303 | - kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested |
304 | in the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from | |
305 | installing the library | |
306 | - Add shell completion for kmod tool | |
b3e19ce9 | 307 | |
3b38c7fc LDM |
308 | kmod 14 |
309 | ======= | |
310 | ||
311 | - Bug fixes: | |
312 | - Fix some format strings | |
313 | - Protect against NULL being passed around to index | |
314 | - Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available, | |
315 | since this doesn't always work | |
316 | - Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's | |
317 | refcount | |
318 | - Minor fixes and refactors | |
319 | ||
320 | - New features: | |
321 | - Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt | |
322 | with. | |
323 | - Remove ability to build a static libkmod | |
324 | - Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname | |
325 | generating output in useful formats | |
326 | ||
abb910eb LDM |
327 | kmod 13 |
328 | ======= | |
329 | ||
330 | - Bug fixes: | |
331 | - Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent) | |
332 | and fix its behavior | |
333 | - Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias | |
334 | psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of | |
335 | modutils | |
336 | ||
337 | - New features: | |
338 | - Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from | |
339 | the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when | |
340 | available, falling back to init_module() otherwise | |
341 | - kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is | |
342 | signed and modinfo uses it | |
343 | - Use secure_getenv if available | |
344 | - rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does | |
345 | - Improve compatibility with musl-libc | |
346 | - Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are | |
347 | xfail tests | |
348 | ||
6feba028 LDM |
349 | kmod 12 |
350 | ======= | |
351 | ||
352 | - Bug fixes: | |
353 | - Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module | |
354 | - Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we | |
355 | need to mangle the section header, not the section. | |
356 | - modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path | |
357 | contains ".ko" substring | |
358 | ||
c599606f LDM |
359 | kmod 11 |
360 | ======= | |
361 | ||
362 | - Improvements to testsuite: | |
363 | - Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems | |
364 | - Allow to check generated files against correct ones | |
365 | ||
366 | - New features: | |
367 | - libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to | |
368 | kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This | |
369 | reduces signficantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to | |
370 | execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used. | |
371 | - Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea | |
372 | after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then | |
373 | benefits. | |
374 | - Hide --wait option on rmmod. This feature is being targeted for | |
375 | removal from kernel. rmmod still accepts this option, but it's hidden | |
7ab88044 | 376 | now: man page and usage() say nothing about it and if it's used, |
c599606f LDM |
377 | user will get a 10s sleep. This way we can check and help if anyone |
378 | is using this feature. | |
379 | - Refactor message logging on all tools, giving proper prefix, routing | |
380 | everything to syslog when asked for, etc. | |
381 | ||
382 | - Bug fixes: | |
383 | - Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules | |
384 | - Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr | |
385 | - Fix memory leak in hash implementation | |
386 | ||
40758602 LDM |
387 | kmod 10 |
388 | ======= | |
389 | ||
390 | - New features: | |
391 | - Read coresize from /sys if supported | |
392 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
393 | - Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during |
394 | probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default. | |
40758602 | 395 | This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools |
a7fbae03 | 396 | and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module. |
40758602 LDM |
397 | |
398 | - Better formatting in man pages | |
399 | ||
a7fbae03 | 400 | - Add option to disable building man pages at build time |
40758602 | 401 | |
a7fbae03 | 402 | - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries |
40758602 LDM |
403 | |
404 | - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL | |
405 | ||
62081c0f LDM |
406 | kmod 9 |
407 | ====== | |
408 | ||
a7fbae03 | 409 | - Improvements to the testsuite: |
62081c0f LDM |
410 | - Check for correct handling of softdep loops |
411 | - Check for correct handling of install command loops | |
412 | ||
413 | - Bug fixes: | |
414 | - Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections | |
a7fbae03 JE |
415 | - Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules |
416 | - depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up | |
417 | with a corrupted index without telling the user | |
62081c0f | 418 | |
46684bc2 LDM |
419 | kmod 8 |
420 | ====== | |
421 | ||
422 | - No new features, small bug fixes only. | |
a7fbae03 | 423 | - Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with |
46684bc2 LDM |
424 | module-init-tools |
425 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
426 | - Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad |
427 | parameter or unknown symbols | |
46684bc2 LDM |
428 | |
429 | - Fix doc generation | |
430 | ||
8885ced0 LDM |
431 | kmod 7 |
432 | ====== | |
433 | ||
434 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and | |
435 | udev: now the priority is: | |
436 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d | |
437 | 2. /run/modprobe.d | |
438 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d | |
439 | ||
a7fbae03 JE |
440 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not |
441 | allowing the user to set his preferences. | |
8885ced0 LDM |
442 | |
443 | - Bug fixes: | |
444 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules | |
445 | with modprobe | |
446 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the | |
447 | same of the running kernel | |
448 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments | |
449 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe | |
8885ced0 | 450 | |
26906fe7 LDM |
451 | kmod 6 |
452 | ====== | |
453 | ||
454 | - New API in libkmod: | |
455 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a | |
456 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of | |
457 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() | |
458 | ||
459 | - More tests in testsuite | |
460 | ||
461 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again | |
462 | ||
463 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel | |
464 | ||
465 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages | |
466 | ||
467 | - Bug fixes: | |
468 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled | |
469 | - Infinite loop with softdeps | |
470 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands | |
471 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match | |
472 | ||
473 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org | |
474 | ||
e479598b LDM |
475 | kmod 5 |
476 | ====== | |
477 | ||
478 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts | |
479 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were | |
480 | sanitized. | |
481 | ||
482 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of | |
483 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of | |
484 | code between modprobe and libkmod | |
485 | ||
486 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or | |
487 | aliases now. | |
488 | ||
489 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and | |
490 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. | |
491 | ||
492 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config | |
493 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. | |
494 | ||
495 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names | |
496 | ||
497 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should | |
498 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other | |
499 | modules. | |
500 | ||
501 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong | |
502 | information in ARMv5 | |
503 | ||
504 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are | |
505 | enabled | |
506 | ||
b53b7e32 LDM |
507 | kmod 4 |
508 | ====== | |
509 | ||
510 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
511 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove | |
512 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps | |
513 | - Dump indexes | |
514 | ||
515 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo | |
516 | ||
517 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc | |
518 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. | |
519 | ||
520 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools | |
521 | ||
522 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated | |
523 | ||
524 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is | |
525 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure | |
526 | script. | |
527 | ||
528 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it | |
529 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. | |
530 | ||
b30a71b8 LDM |
531 | kmod 3 |
532 | ====== | |
533 | ||
534 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
535 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section | |
536 | - Get dependency symbols | |
537 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded | |
538 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, | |
539 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback | |
540 | function. | |
541 | ||
542 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz | |
543 | ||
544 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be | |
545 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. | |
546 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a | |
547 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. | |
548 | ||
549 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary | |
550 | APIs in libkmod. | |
551 | ||
552 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must | |
553 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added | |
554 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. | |
555 | ||
556 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not | |
557 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. | |
558 | ||
acc18b14 LDM |
559 | kmod 2 |
560 | ====== | |
561 | ||
562 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias | |
563 | matched more than one module. | |
564 | ||
565 | - New APIs in libkmod to: | |
566 | - Get soft dependencies | |
567 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF | |
568 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF | |
569 | ||
570 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to | |
571 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag | |
572 | ||
573 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion | |
574 | ||
575 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags | |
576 | ||
577 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are | |
578 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same | |
579 | name obey a precedence order | |
580 | ||
581 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo | |
582 | ||
583 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. | |
584 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These | |
585 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from | |
586 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it | |
587 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. | |
588 | ||
589 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod | |
590 | ||
89eba7cb LDM |
591 | kmod 1 |
592 | ====== | |
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89eba7cb LDM |
594 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
595 | ||
596 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: | |
597 | - List modules currently loaded | |
598 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, | |
599 | holders, sections, address and size | |
600 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path | |
601 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be | |
602 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet | |
603 | - Remove modules | |
604 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist | |
605 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove | |
606 | commands | |
607 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later | |
608 | ||
609 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: | |
610 | - kmod-lsmod | |
611 | - kmod-insmod | |
612 | - kmod-rmmod | |
613 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, | |
614 | dump configuration, show modversions) |