NEWS

   1 kmod 10
   2 =======
   3
   4 - New features:
   5         - Read coresize from /sys if supported
   6
   7         - Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blaklisting during
   8           probe only if mod is and alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default.
   9           This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools
  10           and ultimately make us loading a blacklisted module.
  11
  12 - Better formatting in man pages
  13
  14 - Add option to disable man pages at build time
  15
  16 - Fixes in testsuite and refactor of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries
  17
  18 - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL
  19
  20 kmod 9
  21 ======
  22
  23 - Improvements to testsuite:
  24         - Check for correct handling of softdep loops
  25         - Check for correct handling of install command loops
  26
  27 - Bug fixes:
  28         - Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections
  29         - Handle errors when dealing with gzipp'ed modules
  30         - depmod now handles errors while writing indexes, so it doesn't end up
  31           with corrupted index without telling the user
  32
  33 kmod 8
  34 ======
  35
  36 - No new features, small bug fixes only.
  37         - Fix bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with
  38           module-init-tools
  39
  40         - Give an useful error message when init_module fails due to bad
  41           parameter or unknown symbol
  42
  43         - Fix doc generation
  44
  45 kmod 7
  46 ======
  47
  48 - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and
  49   udev: now the priority is:
  50         1. /etc/modprobe.d
  51         2. /run/modprobe.d
  52         3. /lib/modprobe.d
  53
  54 - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevents us from not
  55   allowing user to set his preference
  56
  57 - Bug fixes:
  58         - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules
  59           with modprobe
  60         - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the
  61           same of the running kernel
  62         - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments
  63         - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe
  64         -
  65
  66 kmod 6
  67 ======
  68
  69 - New API in libkmod:
  70         - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a
  71           list of modules. This deprecates the use of
  72           kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist()
  73
  74 - More tests in testsuite
  75
  76 - Add compatibility with uClibc again
  77
  78 - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel
  79
  80 - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages
  81
  82 - Bug fixes:
  83         - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled
  84         - Infinite loop with softdeps
  85         - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands
  86         - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match
  87
  88 - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org
  89
  90 kmod 5
  91 ======
  92
  93 - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts
  94   extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were
  95   sanitized.
  96
  97 - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of
  98   kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of
  99   code between modprobe and libkmod
 100
 101 - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or
 102   aliases now.
 103
 104 - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and
 105   easing the way bugs are reproduced.
 106
 107 - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config
 108   and indexes by adding a commented line between them.
 109
 110 - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names
 111
 112 - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should
 113   not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other
 114   modules.
 115
 116 - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong
 117   information in ARMv5
 118
 119 - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are
 120   enabled
 121
 122 kmod 4
 123 ======
 124
 125 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 126         - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove
 127           commands, aliases, options and softdeps
 128         - Dump indexes
 129
 130 - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo
 131
 132 - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc
 133   will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that.
 134
 135 - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools
 136
 137 - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated
 138
 139 - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is
 140   printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure
 141   script.
 142
 143 - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it
 144   dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents.
 145
 146 kmod 3
 147 ======
 148
 149 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 150         - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section
 151         - Get dependency symbols
 152         - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded
 153         - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands,
 154           blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback
 155           function.
 156
 157 - Support to load modules compressed with xz
 158
 159 - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be
 160   called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools.
 161   E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a
 162   1:1 replacement of module-init-tools.
 163
 164 - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary
 165   APIs in libkmod.
 166
 167 - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must
 168   check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added
 169   in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it.
 170
 171 - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not
 172   handle unaligned access can use kmod, too.
 173
 174 kmod 2
 175 ======
 176
 177 Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias
 178 matched more than one module.
 179
 180 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 181         - Get soft dependencies
 182         - Get info from module files parsing ELF
 183         - Get modversions from files parsing ELF
 184
 185 - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to
 186   gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag
 187
 188 - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion
 189
 190 - Support to force and nowait removal flags
 191
 192 - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are
 193   sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same
 194   name obey a precedence order
 195
 196 - New tool: kmod-modinfo
 197
 198 - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe.
 199   The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These
 200   last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from
 201   modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it
 202   maintains compabitility with modprobe.
 203
 204 - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod
 205
 206 kmod 1
 207 ======
 208
 209 First version of kmod and its library, libkmod.
 210
 211 In the libkmod it's currently possible to:
 212         - List modules currently loaded
 213         - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount,
 214           holders, sections, address and size
 215         - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path
 216         - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be
 217           passed, but flags are not implemented, yet
 218         - Remove modules
 219         - Filter list of modules using blacklist
 220         - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove
 221           commands
 222         - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later
 223
 224 Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools:
 225         - kmod-lsmod
 226         - kmod-insmod
 227         - kmod-rmmod
 228         - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep,
 229           dump configuration, show modversions)