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 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
 =======

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Fix some format strings
 	- Protect against NULL being passed around to index
 	- Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available,
 	  since this doesn't always work
 	- Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's
 	  refcount
 	- Minor fixes and refactors

 - New features:
 	- Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt
 	  with.
 	- Remove ability to build a static libkmod
 	- Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname
 	  generating output in useful formats

 kmod 13
 =======

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent)
 	  and fix its behavior
 	- Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias
 	  psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of
 	  modutils

 - New features:
 	- Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from
 	  the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when
 	  available, falling back to init_module() otherwise
 	- kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is
 	  signed and modinfo uses it
 	- Use secure_getenv if available
 	- rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does
 	- Improve compatibility with musl-libc
 	- Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are
 	  xfail tests

 kmod 12
 =======

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module
 	- Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we
 	  need to mangle the section header, not the section.
 	- modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path
 	  contains ".ko" substring

 kmod 11
 =======

 - Improvements to testsuite:
 	- Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems
 	- Allow to check generated files against correct ones

 - New features:
 	- libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to
 	  kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This
 	  reduces signficantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to
 	  execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used.
 	- Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea
 	  after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then
 	  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() 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
 	  everything to syslog when asked for, etc.

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules
 	- Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr
 	- Fix memory leak in hash implementation

 kmod 10
 =======

 - New features:
 	- Read coresize from /sys if supported

 	- Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during
 	  probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default.
 	  This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools
 	  and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module.

 - Better formatting in man pages

 - Add option to disable building man pages at build time

 - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries

 - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL

 kmod 9
 ======

 - Improvements to the testsuite:
 	- Check for correct handling of softdep loops
 	- Check for correct handling of install command loops

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections
 	- Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules
 	- depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up
 	  with a corrupted index without telling the user

 kmod 8
 ======

 - No new features, small bug fixes only.
 	- Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with
 	  module-init-tools

 	- Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad
 	  parameter or unknown symbols

 	- Fix doc generation

 kmod 7
 ======

 - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and
   udev: now the priority is:
 	1. /etc/modprobe.d
 	2. /run/modprobe.d
 	3. /lib/modprobe.d

 - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not
   allowing the user to set his preferences.

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules
 	  with modprobe
 	- Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the
 	  same of the running kernel
 	- 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments
 	- Fix '-q' usage in modprobe

 kmod 6
 ======

 - New API in libkmod:
 	- kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a
 	  list of modules. This deprecates the use of
 	  kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist()

 - More tests in testsuite

 - Add compatibility with uClibc again

 - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel

 - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages

 - Bug fixes:
 	- Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled
 	- Infinite loop with softdeps
 	- Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands
 	- Fix leak in index when there's a partial match

 - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org

 kmod 5
 ======

 - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts
   extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were
   sanitized.

 - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of
   kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of
   code between modprobe and libkmod

 - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or
   aliases now.

 - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and
   easing the way bugs are reproduced.

 - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config
   and indexes by adding a commented line between them.

 - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names

 - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should
   not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other
   modules.

 - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong
   information in ARMv5

 - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are
   enabled

 kmod 4
 ======

 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 	- Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove
 	  commands, aliases, options and softdeps
 	- Dump indexes

 - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo

 - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc
   will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that.

 - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools

 - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated

 - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is
   printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure
   script.

 - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it
   dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents.

 kmod 3
 ======

 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 	- Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section
 	- Get dependency symbols
 	- Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded
 	- Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands,
 	  blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback
 	  function.

 - Support to load modules compressed with xz

 - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be
   called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools.
   E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a
   1:1 replacement of module-init-tools.

 - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary
   APIs in libkmod.

 - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must
   check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added
   in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it.

 - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not
   handle unaligned access can use kmod, too.

 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)
	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
	=======

	- Bug fixes:
	- Fix some format strings
	- Protect against NULL being passed around to index
	- Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available,
	since this doesn't always work
	- Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's
	refcount
	- Minor fixes and refactors

	- New features:
	- Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt
	with.
	- Remove ability to build a static libkmod
	- Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname
	generating output in useful formats

	kmod 13
	=======

	- Bug fixes:
	- Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent)
	and fix its behavior
	- Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias
	psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of
	modutils

	- New features:
	- Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from
	the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when
	available, falling back to init_module() otherwise
	- kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is
	signed and modinfo uses it
	- Use secure_getenv if available
	- rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does
	- Improve compatibility with musl-libc
	- Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are
	xfail tests

	kmod 12
	=======

	- Bug fixes:
	- Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module
	- Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we
	need to mangle the section header, not the section.
	- modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path
	contains ".ko" substring

	kmod 11
	=======

	- Improvements to testsuite:
	- Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems
	- Allow to check generated files against correct ones

	- New features:
	- libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to
	kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This
	reduces signficantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to
	execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used.
	- Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea
	after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then
	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() 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
	everything to syslog when asked for, etc.

	- Bug fixes:
	- Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules
	- Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr
	- Fix memory leak in hash implementation

	kmod 10
	=======

	- New features:
	- Read coresize from /sys if supported

	- Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during
	probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default.
	This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools
	and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module.

	- Better formatting in man pages

	- Add option to disable building man pages at build time

	- Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries

	- Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL

	kmod 9
	======

	- Improvements to the testsuite:
	- Check for correct handling of softdep loops
	- Check for correct handling of install command loops

	- Bug fixes:
	- Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections
	- Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules
	- depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up
	with a corrupted index without telling the user

	kmod 8
	======

	- No new features, small bug fixes only.
	- Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with
	module-init-tools

	- Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad
	parameter or unknown symbols

	- Fix doc generation

	kmod 7
	======

	- Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and
	udev: now the priority is:
	1. /etc/modprobe.d
	2. /run/modprobe.d
	3. /lib/modprobe.d

	- Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not
	allowing the user to set his preferences.

	- Bug fixes:
	- Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules
	with modprobe
	- Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the
	same of the running kernel
	- 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments
	- Fix '-q' usage in modprobe

	kmod 6
	======

	- New API in libkmod:
	- kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a
	list of modules. This deprecates the use of
	kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist()

	- More tests in testsuite

	- Add compatibility with uClibc again

	- Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel

	- Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages

	- Bug fixes:
	- Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled
	- Infinite loop with softdeps
	- Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands
	- Fix leak in index when there's a partial match

	- Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org

	kmod 5
	======

	- Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts
	extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were
	sanitized.

	- Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of
	kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of
	code between modprobe and libkmod

	- modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or
	aliases now.

	- testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and
	easing the way bugs are reproduced.

	- modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config
	and indexes by adding a commented line between them.

	- Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names

	- Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should
	not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other
	modules.

	- Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong
	information in ARMv5

	- Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are
	enabled

	kmod 4
	======

	- New APIs in libkmod to:
	- Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove
	commands, aliases, options and softdeps
	- Dump indexes

	- Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo

	- API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc
	will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that.

	- Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools

	- 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated

	- configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is
	printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure
	script.

	- 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it
	dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents.

	kmod 3
	======

	- New APIs in libkmod to:
	- Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section
	- Get dependency symbols
	- Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded
	- Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands,
	blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback
	function.

	- Support to load modules compressed with xz

	- Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be
	called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools.
	E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a
	1:1 replacement of module-init-tools.

	- The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary
	APIs in libkmod.

	- If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must
	check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added
	in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it.

	- An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not
	handle unaligned access can use kmod, too.

	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)