Lucas De Marchi | 8885ced | 2012-03-19 08:23:14 -0300 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | kmod 7 |
| 2 | ====== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and |
| 5 | udev: now the priority is: |
| 6 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d |
| 7 | 2. /run/modprobe.d |
| 8 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d |
| 9 | |
| 10 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevents us from not |
| 11 | allowing user to set his preference |
| 12 | |
| 13 | - Bug fixes: |
| 14 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules |
| 15 | with modprobe |
| 16 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the |
| 17 | same of the running kernel |
| 18 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments |
| 19 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe |
| 20 | - |
| 21 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 26906fe | 2012-03-02 22:34:36 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | kmod 6 |
| 23 | ====== |
| 24 | |
| 25 | - New API in libkmod: |
| 26 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a |
| 27 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of |
| 28 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() |
| 29 | |
| 30 | - More tests in testsuite |
| 31 | |
| 32 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again |
| 33 | |
| 34 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages |
| 37 | |
| 38 | - Bug fixes: |
| 39 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled |
| 40 | - Infinite loop with softdeps |
| 41 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands |
| 42 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org |
| 45 | |
Lucas De Marchi | e479598 | 2012-02-06 20:34:33 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | kmod 5 |
| 47 | ====== |
| 48 | |
| 49 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts |
| 50 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were |
| 51 | sanitized. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of |
| 54 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of |
| 55 | code between modprobe and libkmod |
| 56 | |
| 57 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or |
| 58 | aliases now. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and |
| 61 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. |
| 62 | |
| 63 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config |
| 64 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names |
| 67 | |
| 68 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should |
| 69 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other |
| 70 | modules. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong |
| 73 | information in ARMv5 |
| 74 | |
| 75 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are |
| 76 | enabled |
| 77 | |
Lucas De Marchi | b53b7e3 | 2012-01-16 16:53:04 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | kmod 4 |
| 79 | ====== |
| 80 | |
| 81 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 82 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove |
| 83 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps |
| 84 | - Dump indexes |
| 85 | |
| 86 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo |
| 87 | |
| 88 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc |
| 89 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. |
| 90 | |
| 91 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools |
| 92 | |
| 93 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated |
| 94 | |
| 95 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is |
| 96 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure |
| 97 | script. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it |
| 100 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. |
| 101 | |
Lucas De Marchi | b30a71b | 2012-01-04 22:27:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | kmod 3 |
| 103 | ====== |
| 104 | |
| 105 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 106 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section |
| 107 | - Get dependency symbols |
| 108 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded |
| 109 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, |
| 110 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback |
| 111 | function. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz |
| 114 | |
| 115 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be |
| 116 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. |
| 117 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a |
| 118 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. |
| 119 | |
| 120 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary |
| 121 | APIs in libkmod. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must |
| 124 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added |
| 125 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. |
| 126 | |
| 127 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not |
| 128 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. |
| 129 | |
Lucas De Marchi | acc18b1 | 2011-12-20 23:48:46 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | kmod 2 |
| 131 | ====== |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias |
| 134 | matched more than one module. |
| 135 | |
| 136 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 137 | - Get soft dependencies |
| 138 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF |
| 139 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF |
| 140 | |
| 141 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to |
| 142 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag |
| 143 | |
| 144 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion |
| 145 | |
| 146 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags |
| 147 | |
| 148 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are |
| 149 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same |
| 150 | name obey a precedence order |
| 151 | |
| 152 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo |
| 153 | |
| 154 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. |
| 155 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These |
| 156 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from |
| 157 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it |
| 158 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod |
| 161 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 89eba7c | 2011-12-15 15:43:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | kmod 1 |
| 163 | ====== |
Lucas De Marchi | ecd40ee | 2011-11-21 12:35:15 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 164 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 89eba7c | 2011-12-15 15:43:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: |
| 168 | - List modules currently loaded |
| 169 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, |
| 170 | holders, sections, address and size |
| 171 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path |
| 172 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be |
| 173 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet |
| 174 | - Remove modules |
| 175 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist |
| 176 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove |
| 177 | commands |
| 178 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later |
| 179 | |
| 180 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: |
| 181 | - kmod-lsmod |
| 182 | - kmod-insmod |
| 183 | - kmod-rmmod |
| 184 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, |
| 185 | dump configuration, show modversions) |