kmod 2 ====== Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias matched more than one module. - New APIs in libkmod to: - Get soft dependencies - Get info from module files parsing ELF - Get modversions from files parsing ELF - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion - Support to force and nowait removal flags - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same name obey a precedence order - New tool: kmod-modinfo - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it maintains compabitility with modprobe. - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod kmod 1 ====== First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. In the libkmod it's currently possible to: - List modules currently loaded - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, holders, sections, address and size - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be passed, but flags are not implemented, yet - Remove modules - Filter list of modules using blacklist - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove commands - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: - kmod-lsmod - kmod-insmod - kmod-rmmod - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, dump configuration, show modversions)