| Lucas De Marchi | acc18b1 | 2011-12-20 23:48:46 -0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | kmod 2 |
| 2 | ====== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias |
| 5 | matched more than one module. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 8 | - Get soft dependencies |
| 9 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF |
| 10 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF |
| 11 | |
| 12 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to |
| 13 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag |
| 14 | |
| 15 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion |
| 16 | |
| 17 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags |
| 18 | |
| 19 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are |
| 20 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same |
| 21 | name obey a precedence order |
| 22 | |
| 23 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo |
| 24 | |
| 25 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. |
| 26 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These |
| 27 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from |
| 28 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it |
| 29 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod |
| 32 | |
| Lucas De Marchi | 89eba7c | 2011-12-15 15:43:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | kmod 1 |
| 34 | ====== |
| Lucas De Marchi | ecd40ee | 2011-11-21 12:35:15 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
| Lucas De Marchi | 89eba7c | 2011-12-15 15:43:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: |
| 39 | - List modules currently loaded |
| 40 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, |
| 41 | holders, sections, address and size |
| 42 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path |
| 43 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be |
| 44 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet |
| 45 | - Remove modules |
| 46 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist |
| 47 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove |
| 48 | commands |
| 49 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later |
| 50 | |
| 51 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: |
| 52 | - kmod-lsmod |
| 53 | - kmod-insmod |
| 54 | - kmod-rmmod |
| 55 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, |
| 56 | dump configuration, show modversions) |