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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
Lucas De Marchi681bf892013-04-23 21:21:00 -03004* Protect index against OOM
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Lucas De Marchi46939ec2013-04-09 20:20:38 -03006* Implement actions in kmod tool like 'insert', 'remove', 'info', etc
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Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -02008* testsuite:
Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -02009 - when fake delete_module() succeeds, remove its entry from /sys/module
Lucas De Marchibf89f762011-12-01 18:23:47 -020010
Lucas De Marchi46939ec2013-04-09 20:20:38 -030011* Stop using system() inside the library and use fork + exec instead
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13* config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
14 vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
15 bsearch().
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Lucas De Marchic8c956b2012-06-11 12:00:19 -030017* review API, maybe unify all of these getters:
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri674f8592011-12-20 11:54:53 -020018 - kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
19 - kmod_module_version_get_crc()
20 - kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
21 - kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
22 - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
23 - kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
24 - kmod_module_versions_free_list()
25 - kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
Lucas De Marchi8836ff22012-11-05 02:04:44 -020026 - kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri674f8592011-12-20 11:54:53 -020027
Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -020028* index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one
29 with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it.
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020030
Lucas De Marchicc833642012-10-17 18:32:56 -030031* Finish removal of "rmmod -w" when it's gone from kernel.
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33* Deprecate not using KMOD_REMOVE_NOWAIT on libkmod.
Lucas De Marchi8447b862012-08-30 14:10:47 -030034
Lucas De Marchi3af535c2011-12-27 17:32:55 -020035Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020036===================================================================
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38* list of currently loaded modules
Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -020039 - readdir() in /sys/modules: dir without a 'initstate' file means the
40 module is builtin.
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020041
Lucas De Marchi5e690c52011-12-16 02:02:58 -020042* kill /proc/modules ?
Lucas De Marchi758428a2012-01-16 15:56:17 -020043 - Unlikely, given other tools might depend on it
Lucas De Marchi5a96c5f2012-01-01 05:47:17 -020044
Lucas De Marchi46939ec2013-04-09 20:20:38 -030045
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Lucas De Marchi5a96c5f2012-01-01 05:47:17 -020047Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
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50modprobe
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53* 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
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55* 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
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Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -020057* there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to modprobe so we
Lucas De Marchi5a96c5f2012-01-01 05:47:17 -020058 can remove modules depending on that one
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Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -020060* modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
61 '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
Lucas De Marchi5a96c5f2012-01-01 05:47:17 -020062
Lucas De Marchi80e54cb2012-02-22 13:07:13 -020063* modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
Lucas De Marchi0ad5dd02012-01-11 00:28:12 -020064 files.
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Lucas De Marchif5643942012-01-12 14:45:11 -020066* modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
67 config:
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69 install bli "echo bli"
70 install bla "echo bla"
71 softdep bla pre: bli
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73 With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
74 install "echo bla"
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76 While with kmod:
77 install "echo bli"
78 install "echo bla"
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Lucas De Marchibc434962012-01-13 02:35:34 -020080* kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
81 dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
82 are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
83 kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
84 of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
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Lucas De Marchi5a96c5f2012-01-01 05:47:17 -020086depmod
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89* there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
Lucas De Marchie85b6732012-01-12 15:28:19 -020090
91lsmod
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94* information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules