NEWS

   1 kmod 2
   2 ======
   3
   4 Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias
   5 matched more than one module.
   6
   7 - New APIs in libkmod to:
   8         - Get soft dependencies
   9         - Get info from module files parsing ELF
  10         - Get modversions from files parsing ELF
  11
  12 - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to
  13   gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag
  14
  15 - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion
  16
  17 - Support to force and nowait removal flags
  18
  19 - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are
  20   sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same
  21   name obey a precedence order
  22
  23 - New tool: kmod-modinfo
  24
  25 - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe.
  26   The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These
  27   last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from
  28   modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it
  29   maintains compabitility with modprobe.
  30
  31 - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod
  32
  33 kmod 1
  34 ======
  35
  36 First version of kmod and its library, libkmod.
  37
  38 In the libkmod it's currently possible to:
  39         - List modules currently loaded
  40         - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount,
  41           holders, sections, address and size
  42         - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path
  43         - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be
  44           passed, but flags are not implemented, yet
  45         - Remove modules
  46         - Filter list of modules using blacklist
  47         - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove
  48           commands
  49         - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later
  50
  51 Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools:
  52         - kmod-lsmod
  53         - kmod-insmod
  54         - kmod-rmmod
  55         - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep,
  56           dump configuration, show modversions)