kmod 4 ====== - New APIs in libkmod to: - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove commands, aliases, options and softdeps - Dump indexes - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure script. - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. kmod 3 ====== - New APIs in libkmod to: - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section - Get dependency symbols - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback function. - Support to load modules compressed with xz - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary APIs in libkmod. - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. 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)