| Features: |
| ========= |
| |
| * config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a |
| vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling |
| bsearch(). |
| |
| * index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one |
| with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it. |
| |
| * create test-mock library to be LD_PRELOAD'ed before running the binaries |
| so we're able to create unit tests |
| |
| * Add functions to dump configuration. Create a list with the config items |
| (blacklist, aliases, etc) or just dump to a fd? |
| |
| * Add functions to list all modules known by modules.dep |
| |
| * provide 1:1 compatibility with module-init-tools's modprobe |
| - dump configuration |
| - deal with dependency loop |
| - fix dependency listing in --show-depends |
| $ modprobe -S 3.2.0-2-ARCH --show-depends ahci |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/libahci.ko.gz |
| insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko.gz |
| |
| * Add manpages: copy them from module-init-tools and make the necessary changes |
| |
| * review API, maybe unify all of these setters: |
| - kmod_module_version_get_symbol() |
| - kmod_module_version_get_crc() |
| - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol() |
| - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc() |
| - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol() |
| - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc() |
| - kmod_module_versions_free_list() |
| - kmod_module_symbols_free_list() |
| - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list() |
| |
| * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed |
| and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry |
| compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick |
| individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression |
| does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide |
| it. The file format should be something like: |
| MAGIC-ID |
| DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE |
| DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size) |
| ENTRIES (each is a compressed module) |
| Helper binary to: |
| kmod-archive list |
| kmod-archive add path.ko |
| kmod-archive rm path.ko |
| kmod-archive get path.ko |
| kmod-archive exists path.ko |
| |
| Known Bugs: |
| =========== |
| |
| |
| Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed): |
| =================================================================== |
| |
| * list of currently loaded modules |
| |
| * module's size should be available under /sys |
| |
| * kill /proc/modules ? |
| |
| Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO) |
| =================================================================== |
| |
| modprobe |
| -------- |
| |
| * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore |
| |
| * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l' |
| |
| * there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to kmod-modprobe so we |
| can remove modules depending on that one |
| |
| * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse configuration files whose name don't end on |
| '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files. |
| |
| * kmod-modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration |
| files. |
| |
| * we don't use <module-dir>/modules.builtin{,.bin} indexes. Instead we rely on |
| module appearing on /sys/modules/* without a initstate file to determine if |
| it is builtin. |
| |
| depmod |
| ------ |
| |
| * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone |