| 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) |