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Lucas De Marchibf89f762011-12-01 18:23:47 -02001Features:
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -02002=========
Lucas De Marchibf89f762011-12-01 18:23:47 -02003
4* config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
5 vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
6 bsearch().
7
Lucas De Marchic3325cf2011-12-02 14:49:57 -02008* index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one
9 with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it.
10
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieric3d0a5f2011-12-11 19:36:18 -020011* create test-mock library to be LD_PRELOAD'ed before running the binaries
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri7fe602b2011-12-10 13:32:27 -020012 so we're able to create unit tests
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieric3d0a5f2011-12-11 19:36:18 -020013
Lucas De Marchi3af535c2011-12-27 17:32:55 -020014* Add functions to dump configuration. Create a list with the config items
15 (blacklist, aliases, etc) or just dump to a fd?
Lucas De Marchid68ea2a2011-12-14 14:02:28 -020016
Lucas De Marchi3af535c2011-12-27 17:32:55 -020017* Add functions to list all modules known by modules.dep
Lucas De Marchid68ea2a2011-12-14 14:02:28 -020018
Lucas De Marchid68ea2a2011-12-14 14:02:28 -020019* provide 1:1 compatibility with module-init-tools's modprobe
Lucas De Marchid68ea2a2011-12-14 14:02:28 -020020 - dump configuration
Lucas De Marchi088a6a82011-12-26 16:05:19 -020021 - 'modprobe -r' should remove modules which usecount became 0 because of
22 module's removal
Lucas De Marchid68ea2a2011-12-14 14:02:28 -020023
Lucas De Marchi3af535c2011-12-27 17:32:55 -020024* Add kmod_validate(). It checks if all config files and indexes are still
25 valid. We need to save the mtime of each config dir when starting up and when
26 this function is called we stat the dir and compare the mtimes.
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri674f8592011-12-20 11:54:53 -020027
28* review API, maybe unify all of these setters:
29 - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
30 - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
31 - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
32 - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
33 - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
34 - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
35 - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
36 - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
37 - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
38
Gustavo Sverzut Barbierif841e632011-12-19 11:37:08 -020039* provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
40 and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
41 compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
42 individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
43 does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
44 it. The file format should be something like:
45 MAGIC-ID
46 DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
47 DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
48 ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
49 Helper binary to:
50 kmod-archive list
51 kmod-archive add path.ko
52 kmod-archive rm path.ko
53 kmod-archive get path.ko
54 kmod-archive exists path.ko
55
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020056Known Bugs:
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58
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020059
Lucas De Marchi3af535c2011-12-27 17:32:55 -020060Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020061===================================================================
62
63* list of currently loaded modules
64
65* module's size should be available under /sys
66
67* kill /proc/modules ?