+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
=======
- 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 shorter.
+ tools, making the binary size of tools smaller.
- Clarify tools vs library licenses
- - static-nodes: when writting in tmpfiles format, indicate that
+ - 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+.
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