NEWS

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