NEWS

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