NEWS

   1 kmod 4
   2 ======
   3
   4 - New APIs in libkmod to:
   5         - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove
   6           commands, aliases, options and softdeps
   7         - Dump indexes
   8
   9 - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo
  10
  11 - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc
  12   will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that.
  13
  14 - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools
  15
  16 - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated
  17
  18 - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is
  19   printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure
  20   script.
  21
  22 - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it
  23   dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents.
  24
  25 kmod 3
  26 ======
  27
  28 - New APIs in libkmod to:
  29         - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section
  30         - Get dependency symbols
  31         - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded
  32         - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands,
  33           blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback
  34           function.
  35
  36 - Support to load modules compressed with xz
  37
  38 - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be
  39   called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools.
  40   E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a
  41   1:1 replacement of module-init-tools.
  42
  43 - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary
  44   APIs in libkmod.
  45
  46 - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must
  47   check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added
  48   in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it.
  49
  50 - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not
  51   handle unaligned access can use kmod, too.
  52
  53 kmod 2
  54 ======
  55
  56 Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias
  57 matched more than one module.
  58
  59 - New APIs in libkmod to:
  60         - Get soft dependencies
  61         - Get info from module files parsing ELF
  62         - Get modversions from files parsing ELF
  63
  64 - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to
  65   gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag
  66
  67 - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion
  68
  69 - Support to force and nowait removal flags
  70
  71 - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are
  72   sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same
  73   name obey a precedence order
  74
  75 - New tool: kmod-modinfo
  76
  77 - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe.
  78   The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These
  79   last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from
  80   modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it
  81   maintains compabitility with modprobe.
  82
  83 - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod
  84
  85 kmod 1
  86 ======
  87
  88 First version of kmod and its library, libkmod.
  89
  90 In the libkmod it's currently possible to:
  91         - List modules currently loaded
  92         - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount,
  93           holders, sections, address and size
  94         - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path
  95         - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be
  96           passed, but flags are not implemented, yet
  97         - Remove modules
  98         - Filter list of modules using blacklist
  99         - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove
 100           commands
 101         - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later
 102
 103 Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools:
 104         - kmod-lsmod
 105         - kmod-insmod
 106         - kmod-rmmod
 107         - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep,
 108           dump configuration, show modversions)