Lucas De Marchi | f9e2167 | 2014-11-16 10:24:50 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | kmod 19 |
| 2 | ======= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | - Bug fixes: |
| 5 | - Fix missing CLOEXEC in library |
| 6 | - Fix error message while opening kmod's index |
| 7 | |
| 8 | - New features: |
| 9 | - Add kmod(8) man page |
| 10 | - Allow to build with libc's without be32toh() |
| 11 | - Move code around separating common code and data structures into a |
| 12 | shared directory. This allows to share more code between library and |
Lucas De Marchi | 3b05861 | 2014-11-16 10:37:45 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | tools, making the binary size of tools smaller. |
Lucas De Marchi | f9e2167 | 2014-11-16 10:24:50 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | - Clarify tools vs library licenses |
Lucas De Marchi | 3b05861 | 2014-11-16 10:37:45 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | - static-nodes: when writing in tmpfiles format, indicate that |
Lucas De Marchi | f9e2167 | 2014-11-16 10:24:50 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | creation of static nodes should only happen at boot. This is used and |
| 17 | required by systemd-217+. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | - Improvements to testsuite: |
| 20 | - Add tests for newly created shared/ code |
| 21 | - Improve how tests are declared so there's less boilerplate code for |
| 22 | each test. |
| 23 | |
Lucas De Marchi | ae58de0 | 2014-06-14 12:46:38 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | kmod 18 |
| 25 | ======= |
| 26 | |
| 27 | - Bug fixes: |
| 28 | - Fix leaks in error paths |
| 29 | - Fix use-after-free in hash implementation causing a wrong index to be |
| 30 | generated by depmod with out-of-tree modules |
| 31 | |
| 32 | - New features: |
| 33 | - Calling depmod with modules creating a dependency loop will now make |
| 34 | depmod return an error and not update the indexes. This is to protect |
| 35 | the current index not being overridden by another index that may cause |
| 36 | a boot failure, depending on the buggy module. It's a necessary |
| 37 | change in behavior regarding previous kmod releases and |
| 38 | module-init-tools. The error message was also improved to output |
| 39 | the modules that caused the dependency cycle. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | - Improvements to testsuite: |
| 42 | - Fix and improve expected-fail test |
| 43 | - Add tests for hashmap implementation |
| 44 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 49d8e0b | 2014-04-06 17:52:44 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | kmod 17 |
| 46 | ======= |
| 47 | |
| 48 | - Bug fixes: |
| 49 | - Fix matching a "." in kernel cmdline, making garbage in the command |
| 50 | line be parsed as kmod options |
| 51 | - Fix man pages to clarify we don't fallback to parsing modules.dep |
| 52 | but instead we depend on modules.dep.bin (generated by depmod) to |
| 53 | be present |
| 54 | - Fix ELF parsing on 32 bit systems assigning the wrong class. |
| 55 | - Fix partial matches of search directives in depmod. Previously having |
| 56 | a line in depmod.conf such as "search foo foobar built-in" would cause |
| 57 | unpretictable results because foo is a partial match of foobar as well. |
| 58 | - Fix unaligned access in modinfo when getting the signature from a |
| 59 | module |
| 60 | - Make sure softdeps are treated as optional dependencies |
| 61 | |
| 62 | - New features: |
| 63 | - Accept special files given to "-C" switch in modprobe. This way it's |
| 64 | possible to skip system configuration with "modprobe -C /dev/null" |
| 65 | - Do not require xsltproc on released tarballs |
| 66 | - Don't use Werror anymore |
| 67 | - Add experimental python bindings, merged from python-kmod repository |
| 68 | (https://github.com/agrover/python-kmod) |
| 69 | - Parse softdeps exported by the kernel as |
| 70 | /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.softdep |
| 71 | |
| 72 | - Improvements to testsuite: |
| 73 | - Check the list of loaded modules after a test |
| 74 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 7ab8804 | 2013-09-20 01:30:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | kmod 16 |
| 76 | ======= |
| 77 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 8f67ab5 | 2013-09-20 01:50:40 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | - Bug fixes: |
| 79 | - Fix usage of readdir_r() |
Lucas De Marchi | 36c4bb9 | 2013-12-22 19:45:19 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 80 | - Add some missing checks for memory allocation errors |
Lucas De Marchi | 8f67ab5 | 2013-09-20 01:50:40 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 7ab8804 | 2013-09-20 01:30:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | - New features: |
| 83 | - Remove option from libkmod to allow waiting on module removal if |
| 84 | the module is being used. It's dangerous since it can block the |
| 85 | caller indefinitely. |
Lucas De Marchi | 8f67ab5 | 2013-09-20 01:50:40 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | - Improve compatibility with musl libc |
| 87 | - Add fallback implementation for compilers without _Static_assert(), |
| 88 | e.g. gcc < 4.6 |
| 89 | - Minor optimizations to the hash table |
| 90 | - Make depmod warn if a module has incorrect devname specification |
Lucas De Marchi | 36c4bb9 | 2013-12-22 19:45:19 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | - Use cleanup attribute |
Lucas De Marchi | 7ab8804 | 2013-09-20 01:30:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 92 | |
Lucas De Marchi | b3e19ce | 2013-07-17 02:31:36 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | kmod 15 |
| 94 | ======= |
| 95 | |
| 96 | - Bug fixes: |
| 97 | - kmod static-nodes doesn't fail if modules.devname isn't available |
Lucas De Marchi | 18811d2 | 2013-08-22 10:44:08 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | - Fix getting boolean parameter from kernel cmdline in case the value |
| 99 | is omitted |
| 100 | - Fix some mkdir_p() corner cases (used in testsuite and static-nodes) |
Lucas De Marchi | b3e19ce | 2013-07-17 02:31:36 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | |
| 102 | - New features: |
| 103 | - kmod static-nodes creates parent directories if given a -o option |
Lucas De Marchi | 18811d2 | 2013-08-22 10:44:08 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | - kmod binary statically links to libkmod - if distro is only interested |
| 105 | in the kmod tool (for example in an initrd) it can refrain from |
| 106 | installing the library |
| 107 | - Add shell completion for kmod tool |
Lucas De Marchi | b3e19ce | 2013-07-17 02:31:36 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 3b38c7f | 2013-07-03 12:42:04 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | kmod 14 |
| 110 | ======= |
| 111 | |
| 112 | - Bug fixes: |
| 113 | - Fix some format strings |
| 114 | - Protect against NULL being passed around to index |
| 115 | - Avoid calling syscall() with -1 when finit_module() is not available, |
| 116 | since this doesn't always work |
| 117 | - Fix not being able to remove alias due to checking the module's |
| 118 | refcount |
| 119 | - Minor fixes and refactors |
| 120 | |
| 121 | - New features: |
| 122 | - Improve libkmod documentation, particularly on how flags are dealt |
| 123 | with. |
| 124 | - Remove ability to build a static libkmod |
| 125 | - Add static-nodes command to kmod that parses modules.devname |
| 126 | generating output in useful formats |
| 127 | |
Lucas De Marchi | abb910e | 2013-04-09 19:35:32 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | kmod 13 |
| 129 | ======= |
| 130 | |
| 131 | - Bug fixes: |
| 132 | - Add the long option --symbol-prefix option to depmod (it was absent) |
| 133 | and fix its behavior |
| 134 | - Don't abort if there's a bogus line in configuration file like "alias |
| 135 | psmouse off". Some distros are carrying this since the days of |
| 136 | modutils |
| 137 | |
| 138 | - New features: |
| 139 | - Add support for finit_module(2). If the module is load straight from |
| 140 | the disk and without compression we use finit_module() syscall when |
| 141 | available, falling back to init_module() otherwise |
| 142 | - kmod_module_get_info() also returns the signature if the module is |
| 143 | signed and modinfo uses it |
| 144 | - Use secure_getenv if available |
| 145 | - rmmod understands builtin modules, just like modprobe does |
| 146 | - Improve compatibility with musl-libc |
| 147 | - Test cases exit with success when receiving a signal if they are |
| 148 | xfail tests |
| 149 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 6feba02 | 2012-12-05 01:39:17 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | kmod 12 |
| 151 | ======= |
| 152 | |
| 153 | - Bug fixes: |
| 154 | - Fix removing vermagic from module when told to force load a module |
| 155 | - Fix removing __versions section when told to force load a module: we |
| 156 | need to mangle the section header, not the section. |
| 157 | - modinfo no longer fails while loading a module from file when path |
| 158 | contains ".ko" substring |
| 159 | |
Lucas De Marchi | c599606 | 2012-11-08 02:30:21 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | kmod 11 |
| 161 | ======= |
| 162 | |
| 163 | - Improvements to testsuite: |
| 164 | - Fix testsuite defining symbols twice on 32 bit systems |
| 165 | - Allow to check generated files against correct ones |
| 166 | |
| 167 | - New features: |
| 168 | - libkmod now keeps a file opened after the first call to |
| 169 | kmod_module_get_{info,versions,symbols,dependency_symbols}. This |
| 170 | reduces signficantly the amount of time depmod tool takes to |
| 171 | execute. Particularly if compressed modules are used. |
| 172 | - Remove --with-rootprefix from build system. It was not a great idea |
| 173 | after all and should not be use since it causes more harm then |
| 174 | benefits. |
| 175 | - Hide --wait option on rmmod. This feature is being targeted for |
| 176 | removal from kernel. rmmod still accepts this option, but it's hidden |
Lucas De Marchi | 7ab8804 | 2013-09-20 01:30:07 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | now: man page and usage() say nothing about it and if it's used, |
Lucas De Marchi | c599606 | 2012-11-08 02:30:21 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | user will get a 10s sleep. This way we can check and help if anyone |
| 179 | is using this feature. |
| 180 | - Refactor message logging on all tools, giving proper prefix, routing |
| 181 | everything to syslog when asked for, etc. |
| 182 | |
| 183 | - Bug fixes: |
| 184 | - Fix parsing of modules.order when using compressed modules |
| 185 | - Usage messages go to stdout instead of stderr |
| 186 | - Fix memory leak in hash implementation |
| 187 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 4075860 | 2012-09-06 16:26:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | kmod 10 |
| 189 | ======= |
| 190 | |
| 191 | - New features: |
| 192 | - Read coresize from /sys if supported |
| 193 | |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | - Add flag to kmod_module_probe_insert() to apply blacklisting during |
| 195 | probe only if mod is an alias. Now modprobe uses this flag by default. |
Lucas De Marchi | 4075860 | 2012-09-06 16:26:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | This is needed to fix a change in behavior regarding module-init-tools |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | and ultimately makes us loading a blacklisted module. |
Lucas De Marchi | 4075860 | 2012-09-06 16:26:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | |
| 199 | - Better formatting in man pages |
| 200 | |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | - Add option to disable building man pages at build time |
Lucas De Marchi | 4075860 | 2012-09-06 16:26:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | - Fixes in the testsuite and refactoring of LDPRELOAD'ed libraries |
Lucas De Marchi | 4075860 | 2012-09-06 16:26:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | |
| 205 | - Re-licensing testsuite as LGPL |
| 206 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 62081c0 | 2012-06-19 19:46:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | kmod 9 |
| 208 | ====== |
| 209 | |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | - Improvements to the testsuite: |
Lucas De Marchi | 62081c0 | 2012-06-19 19:46:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | - Check for correct handling of softdep loops |
| 212 | - Check for correct handling of install command loops |
| 213 | |
| 214 | - Bug fixes: |
| 215 | - Fix build with compilers that don't support --gc-sections |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | - Handle errors when dealing with gzipped modules |
| 217 | - depmod now handles errors while writing indices, so it doesn't end up |
| 218 | with a corrupted index without telling the user |
Lucas De Marchi | 62081c0 | 2012-06-19 19:46:53 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 46684bc | 2012-04-19 11:21:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | kmod 8 |
| 221 | ====== |
| 222 | |
| 223 | - No new features, small bug fixes only. |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | - Fix a bug in "modprobe -c" output: be compatible with |
Lucas De Marchi | 46684bc | 2012-04-19 11:21:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | module-init-tools |
| 226 | |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | - Give a useful error message when init_module fails due to bad |
| 228 | parameter or unknown symbols |
Lucas De Marchi | 46684bc | 2012-04-19 11:21:00 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | |
| 230 | - Fix doc generation |
| 231 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 8885ced | 2012-03-19 08:23:14 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | kmod 7 |
| 233 | ====== |
| 234 | |
| 235 | - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and |
| 236 | udev: now the priority is: |
| 237 | 1. /etc/modprobe.d |
| 238 | 2. /run/modprobe.d |
| 239 | 3. /lib/modprobe.d |
| 240 | |
Jan Engelhardt | a7fbae0 | 2012-09-14 01:55:54 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevented us from not |
| 242 | allowing the user to set his preferences. |
Lucas De Marchi | 8885ced | 2012-03-19 08:23:14 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | |
| 244 | - Bug fixes: |
| 245 | - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules |
| 246 | with modprobe |
| 247 | - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the |
| 248 | same of the running kernel |
| 249 | - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments |
| 250 | - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe |
Lucas De Marchi | 8885ced | 2012-03-19 08:23:14 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 26906fe | 2012-03-02 22:34:36 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | kmod 6 |
| 253 | ====== |
| 254 | |
| 255 | - New API in libkmod: |
| 256 | - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a |
| 257 | list of modules. This deprecates the use of |
| 258 | kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist() |
| 259 | |
| 260 | - More tests in testsuite |
| 261 | |
| 262 | - Add compatibility with uClibc again |
| 263 | |
| 264 | - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel |
| 265 | |
| 266 | - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages |
| 267 | |
| 268 | - Bug fixes: |
| 269 | - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled |
| 270 | - Infinite loop with softdeps |
| 271 | - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands |
| 272 | - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match |
| 273 | |
| 274 | - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org |
| 275 | |
Lucas De Marchi | e479598 | 2012-02-06 20:34:33 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | kmod 5 |
| 277 | ====== |
| 278 | |
| 279 | - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts |
| 280 | extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were |
| 281 | sanitized. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of |
| 284 | kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of |
| 285 | code between modprobe and libkmod |
| 286 | |
| 287 | - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or |
| 288 | aliases now. |
| 289 | |
| 290 | - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and |
| 291 | easing the way bugs are reproduced. |
| 292 | |
| 293 | - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config |
| 294 | and indexes by adding a commented line between them. |
| 295 | |
| 296 | - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names |
| 297 | |
| 298 | - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should |
| 299 | not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other |
| 300 | modules. |
| 301 | |
| 302 | - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong |
| 303 | information in ARMv5 |
| 304 | |
| 305 | - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are |
| 306 | enabled |
| 307 | |
Lucas De Marchi | b53b7e3 | 2012-01-16 16:53:04 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | kmod 4 |
| 309 | ====== |
| 310 | |
| 311 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 312 | - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove |
| 313 | commands, aliases, options and softdeps |
| 314 | - Dump indexes |
| 315 | |
| 316 | - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo |
| 317 | |
| 318 | - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc |
| 319 | will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that. |
| 320 | |
| 321 | - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools |
| 322 | |
| 323 | - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated |
| 324 | |
| 325 | - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is |
| 326 | printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure |
| 327 | script. |
| 328 | |
| 329 | - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it |
| 330 | dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents. |
| 331 | |
Lucas De Marchi | b30a71b | 2012-01-04 22:27:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | kmod 3 |
| 333 | ====== |
| 334 | |
| 335 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 336 | - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section |
| 337 | - Get dependency symbols |
| 338 | - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded |
| 339 | - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands, |
| 340 | blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback |
| 341 | function. |
| 342 | |
| 343 | - Support to load modules compressed with xz |
| 344 | |
| 345 | - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be |
| 346 | called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools. |
| 347 | E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a |
| 348 | 1:1 replacement of module-init-tools. |
| 349 | |
| 350 | - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary |
| 351 | APIs in libkmod. |
| 352 | |
| 353 | - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must |
| 354 | check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added |
| 355 | in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it. |
| 356 | |
| 357 | - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not |
| 358 | handle unaligned access can use kmod, too. |
| 359 | |
Lucas De Marchi | acc18b1 | 2011-12-20 23:48:46 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 360 | kmod 2 |
| 361 | ====== |
| 362 | |
| 363 | Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias |
| 364 | matched more than one module. |
| 365 | |
| 366 | - New APIs in libkmod to: |
| 367 | - Get soft dependencies |
| 368 | - Get info from module files parsing ELF |
| 369 | - Get modversions from files parsing ELF |
| 370 | |
| 371 | - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to |
| 372 | gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag |
| 373 | |
| 374 | - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion |
| 375 | |
| 376 | - Support to force and nowait removal flags |
| 377 | |
| 378 | - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are |
| 379 | sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same |
| 380 | name obey a precedence order |
| 381 | |
| 382 | - New tool: kmod-modinfo |
| 383 | |
| 384 | - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. |
| 385 | The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These |
| 386 | last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from |
| 387 | modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it |
| 388 | maintains compabitility with modprobe. |
| 389 | |
| 390 | - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod |
| 391 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 89eba7c | 2011-12-15 15:43:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | kmod 1 |
| 393 | ====== |
Lucas De Marchi | ecd40ee | 2011-11-21 12:35:15 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | |
Lucas De Marchi | 89eba7c | 2011-12-15 15:43:58 -0200 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | First version of kmod and its library, libkmod. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | In the libkmod it's currently possible to: |
| 398 | - List modules currently loaded |
| 399 | - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount, |
| 400 | holders, sections, address and size |
| 401 | - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path |
| 402 | - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be |
| 403 | passed, but flags are not implemented, yet |
| 404 | - Remove modules |
| 405 | - Filter list of modules using blacklist |
| 406 | - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove |
| 407 | commands |
| 408 | - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later |
| 409 | |
| 410 | Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools: |
| 411 | - kmod-lsmod |
| 412 | - kmod-insmod |
| 413 | - kmod-rmmod |
| 414 | - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep, |
| 415 | dump configuration, show modversions) |