+kmod 22
+=======
+
+- Tools:
+ - Change defaul log level for tools to WARNING rather than ERROR and update
+ some log levels for current messages
+
+ - depmod doesn't fallback to uname if a bad version is passed in the command
+ line anymore. We just exit with an error.
+
+ - insmod was taught the -f flag, just like in modprobe. It was previously
+ silently ignoring it.
+
+- libkmod
+ - New kmod_get_dirname() API to get the module directory set in the
+ context
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fix return code in error path of kmod_module_insert_module(). We were
+ previously returning ENOSYS rather than ENOENT.
+
+kmod 21
+=======
+
+- New features:
+ - kmod tool started to learn the "insert" and "remove" commands that
+ are the simplified versions of the older modprobe tool. These
+ commands are still work in progress so they are hidden behind a
+ --enable-experimental flag during build. It should not be enabled
+ unless you know what you're doing.
+ - kmod tool now prints the relevant configuration options it was built
+ with when the "--version" argument is passed. This helps to mitigate
+ problems for example when the user is trying to load a compressed
+ module but kmod was built without support for the compression method.
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+ - Cache built modules so it is easier to run "make check" on build
+ servers by distro maintainers. If kmod is configured with
+ --disable-test-modules the modules from cache will be used by
+ "make check". No changes to the tests are needed and all of them
+ can run fine.
+
+kmod 20
+=======
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Handle bogus values from ELF, making sure they don't overflow while
+ parsing the file
+ - Fix leak in depmod when -b flag is passed multiple times
+ - Multiple minor fixes from static analysis by coverity and
+ clang-analyze
+ - Fix race between loading modules and checking if it's loaded in the
+ kernel
+
+- New features:
+ - There's a change in behavior regarding builtin modules: we now only
+ consider as builtin those that are present in modules.builtin index.
+ Previously we were also checking the presence of
+ /sys/module/<module-name>, but this is racy and only modules that
+ contain parameters are the ones creating a directory in sysfs.
+
+ Now some commands will start to fail, e.g. "modprobe vt". Since vt
+ can't be compiled as a module it's not present in modules.builtin
+ index. Previously we would report at as builtin, but now we fail
+ because we couldn't find the module.
+
+- Improvements:
+ - Integration of gcov into the build. Currently libkmod is at ~70%
+ covered and tools at ~50% by tests in the testsuite. Utility
+ functions and structures in shared have more than 90% of coverage.
+ - Upload build to coverity
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+ - Fix parsing return codes of init_module() calls
+ - Add tests for utility functions in shared/
+ - Add tests for kmod_module_remove_module()
+ - Add playground, in which our own modules are compiled
+ - Port all tests to use modules from module-playground instead of
+ copying prebuilt modules to the repository
+ - Properly handle binaries that exit with no output
+ - Besides comparing the output of commands, allow to copy to
+ stdout/stderr
+
+kmod 19
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fix missing CLOEXEC in library
+ - Fix error message while opening kmod's index
+
+- New features:
+ - Add kmod(8) man page
+ - Allow to build with libc's without be32toh()
+ - Move code around separating common code and data structures into a
+ shared directory. This allows to share more code between library and
+ tools, making the binary size of tools smaller.
+ - Clarify tools vs library licenses
+ - static-nodes: when writing in tmpfiles format, indicate that
+ creation of static nodes should only happen at boot. This is used and
+ required by systemd-217+.
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+ - Add tests for newly created shared/ code
+ - Improve how tests are declared so there's less boilerplate code for
+ each test.
+
+kmod 18
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fix leaks in error paths
+ - Fix use-after-free in hash implementation causing a wrong index to be
+ generated by depmod with out-of-tree modules
+
+- New features:
+ - Calling depmod with modules creating a dependency loop will now make
+ depmod return an error and not update the indexes. This is to protect
+ the current index not being overridden by another index that may cause
+ a boot failure, depending on the buggy module. It's a necessary
+ change in behavior regarding previous kmod releases and
+ module-init-tools. The error message was also improved to output
+ the modules that caused the dependency cycle.
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+ - Fix and improve expected-fail test
+ - Add tests for hashmap implementation
+
+kmod 17
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fix matching a "." in kernel cmdline, making garbage in the command
+ line be parsed as kmod options
+ - Fix man pages to clarify we don't fallback to parsing modules.dep
+ but instead we depend on modules.dep.bin (generated by depmod) to
+ be present
+ - Fix ELF parsing on 32 bit systems assigning the wrong class.
+ - Fix partial matches of search directives in depmod. Previously having
+ a line in depmod.conf such as "search foo foobar built-in" would cause
+ unpretictable results because foo is a partial match of foobar as well.
+ - Fix unaligned access in modinfo when getting the signature from a
+ module
+ - Make sure softdeps are treated as optional dependencies
+
+- New features:
+ - Accept special files given to "-C" switch in modprobe. This way it's
+ possible to skip system configuration with "modprobe -C /dev/null"
+ - Do not require xsltproc on released tarballs
+ - Don't use Werror anymore
+ - Add experimental python bindings, merged from python-kmod repository
+ (https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod)
+ - Parse softdeps exported by the kernel as
+ /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep
+
+- Improvements to testsuite:
+ - Check the list of loaded modules after a test
+
+kmod 16
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - Fix usage of readdir_r()
+ - Add some missing checks for memory allocation errors
+
+- New features:
+ - Remove option from libkmod to allow waiting on module removal if
+ the module is being used. It's dangerous since it can block the
+ caller indefinitely.
+ - Improve compatibility with musl libc
+ - Add fallback implementation for compilers without _Static_assert(),
+ e.g. gcc < 4.6
+ - Minor optimizations to the hash table
+ - Make depmod warn if a module has incorrect devname specification
+ - Use cleanup attribute
+
+kmod 15
+=======
+
+- Bug fixes:
+ - kmod static-nodes doesn't fail if modules.devname isn't available
+ - Fix getting boolean parameter from kernel cmdline in case the value
+ is omitted
+ - Fix some mkdir_p() corner cases (used in testsuite and static-nodes)
+
+- New features:
+ - kmod static-nodes creates parent directories if given a -o option
+ - kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested
+ in the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from
+ installing the library
+ - Add shell completion for kmod tool
+
kmod 14
=======
benefits.
- Hide --wait option on rmmod. This feature is being targeted for
removal from kernel. rmmod still accepts this option, but it's hidden
- now: man page and usage() says nothing about it and if it's used,
+ now: man page and usage() say nothing about it and if it's used,
user will get a 10s sleep. This way we can check and help if anyone
is using this feature.
- Refactor message logging on all tools, giving proper prefix, routing
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