+kmod 32
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+ - Use any hash algo known by kernel/openssl instead of keep needing
+ to update the mapping
+
+ - Teach kmod to load modprobe.d/depmod.d configuration from ${prefix}/lib
+ and allow it to be overriden during build with --with-distconfdir=DIR
+
+ - Make kernel modules directory configurable. This allows distro to
+ make kmod use only files from /usr regardless of having a compat
+ symlink in place.
+
+ - Install kmod.pc containing the features selected at build time.
+
+ - Install all tools and symlinks by default. Previously kmod relied on
+ distro packaging to set up the symlinks in place like modprobe,
+ depmod, lsmod, etc. Now those symlinks are created by kmod itself
+ and they are always placed in $bindir.
+
+- Bug Fixes
+
+ - Fix warnings due to -Walloc-size
+
+- Others
+
+ - Drop python bindings. Those were not update in ages and not compatible
+ with latest python releases.
+
+ - Cleanup test infra, dropping what was not used anymore
+
+ - Drop experimental tools `kmod insert` / `kmod remove`. Building those
+ was protected by a configure option never set by distros. They also
+ didn't gain enough traction to replace the older interfaces via
+ modprobe/insmod/rmmod.
+
+kmod 31
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+
+ - Allow passing a path to modprobe so the module is loaded from
+ anywhere from the filesystem, but still handling the module
+ dependencies recorded in the indexes. This is mostly intended for kernel
+ developers to speedup testing their kernel modules without having to load the
+ dependencies manually or override the module in /usr/lib/modules/.
+ Now it's possible to do:
+
+ # modprobe ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko
+
+ As long as the dependencies didn't change, this should do the right thing
+
+ - Use in-kernel decompression if available. This will check the runtime support
+ in the kernel for decompressing modules and use it through finit_module().
+ Previously kmod would fallback to the older init_module() when using
+ compressed modules since there wasn't a way to instruct the kernel to
+ uncompress it on load or check if the kernel supported it or not.
+ This requires a recent kernel (>= 6.4) to have that support and
+ in-kernel decompression properly working in the kernel.
+
+ - Make modprobe fallback to syslog when stderr is not available, as was
+ documented in the man page, but not implemented
+
+ - Better explaing `modprobe -r` and how it differentiates from rmmod
+
+ - depmod learned a `-o <dir>` option to allow using a separate output
+ directory. With this, it's possible to split the output files from
+ the ones used as input from the kernel build system
+
+ - Add compat with glibc >= 2.32.9000 that dropped __xstat
+
+ - Improve testsuite to stop skipping tests when sysconfdir is something
+ other than /etc
+
+ - Build system improvements and updates
+
+ - Change a few return codes from -ENOENT to -ENODATA to avoid confusing output
+ in depmod when the module itself lacks a particular ELF section due to e.g.
+ CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n in the kernel.
+
+
+- Bug Fixes
+
+ - Fix testsuite using uninitialized memory when testing module removal
+ with --wait
+
+ - Fix testsuite not correctly overriding the stat syscall on 32-bit
+ platforms. For most architectures this was harmless, but for MIPS it
+ was causing some tests to fail.
+
+ - Fix handling unknown signature algorithm
+
+ - Fix linking with a static liblzma, libzstd or zlib
+
+ - Fix memory leak when removing module holders
+
+ - Fix out-of-bounds access when using very long paths as argument to rmmod
+
+ - Fix warnings reported by UBSan
+
+kmod 30
+=======
+
+- Improvements
+ - Stop adding duplicate information on modules.builtin.alias.bin, just use
+ the modules.builtin.bin index
+
+ - Speedup depmod, particularly under qemu with emulated arch, by
+ avoiding a lot of open/read/close of modules.alias.bin. On an
+ emulated ARM rootfs, depmod with only 2 modules was taking ~32s
+ vs ~0.07s now.
+
+ - Add kmod_module_new_from_name_lookup() which allows doing a lookup by
+ module name, without considering the aliases. Other than that search
+ order is similar to kmod_module_new_from_lookup().
+
+ - modinfo learned the --modname option to explicitely show information
+ about the module, even if there is an alias with the same name. This
+ allows showing information about e.g. kernel/lib/crc32.ko, even if
+ kernel also exports a crc32 alias in modules.alias:
+
+ alias crc32 crc32_pclmul
+ alias crc32 crc32_generic
+
+ Same behavior will be used to other modules and to aliases provided
+ by user/distro.
+
+ - depmod.conf learned a new "excludedir" directive so distro/user can
+ configure more directories to be excluded from its search, besides
+ the hardcoded values "build" and "source".
+
+ - Better group modprobe options on help output under "Management, Query and General".
+
+ - modprobe learned a --wait <MSEC> option to be used together with -r
+ when removing a module. This allows modprobe to keep trying the
+ removal if it fails because the module is still in use. An exponential backoff
+ time is used for further retries.
+
+ The wait behavior provided by the kernel when not passing O_NONBLOCK
+ to delete_module() was removed in v3.13 due to not be used and the
+ consequences of having to support it in the kernel. However there may
+ be some users, particularly on testsuites for individual susbsystems, that
+ would want that. So provide a userspace implementation inside modprobe for
+ such users. "rmmod" doesn't have a --wait as it remains a bare minimal over
+ the API provided by the kernel. In future the --wait behavior can be added
+ to libkmod for testsuites not exec'ing modprobe for module removal.
+
+ - kmod_module_remove_module() learned a new flag to silence output when
+ caller wants to handle them - this is particularly important for the
+ --wait flag to modprobe, as it's not desired to keep seeing error messages
+ while waiting for the module to be unused.
+
+ - Add SM3 hash algo support to modinfo output, as already available in the kernel.
+
+- Bug Fixes
+ - Fix modinfo output when showing information for a .ko module when running
+ on a kernel that has that module as builtin.
+
+ - Fix kmod_module_new_from_lookup() returning > 0 rather than 0
+ when it matches an alias.
+
+ - Fix modinfo segfault when module doesn't exist.
+
+ - Add missing function in the html documentation: kmod_get_dirname().
+
+ - Fix modprobe incorrectly handling number of arguments when prepending values from
+ MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable.
+
+ - Fix modprobe -r --remove-dependencies and since "dependencies" was a
+ misnomer, add the preferred argument option: "--remove-holders". This
+ is the same name used by the kernel. It allows users to also remove
+ other modules holding the one that is being removed.
+
+ - Fix off-by-one in max module name length in depmod.
+
+- Infra/internal
+ - Start some changes in the out-of-tree test modules in kmod so they are useful
+ for being really inserted in the kernel rather than relying on kmod's mock
+ interface. This helps manual testing and may be used to exercise to test
+ changes in the kernel.
+
kmod 29
=======
of the configuration used: now tests will skip if we don't have the
build dependencies)
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kmod 28
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