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The use of .alias (alongside .conf) was added for compatibility with the original module-init-tools project and has been living in kmod ever since. In practise, all the linux distributions that I can see are using .conf files alone, as instructed by modprobe.d(5) and the only instance of an .alias file is the modules.alias as shipped in the kernel. The latter is already handled by other parts of the kmod project, so let's enforce what our documentation says. Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717-rm-alias-v1-1-58874caf343a@gmail.com |
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kmod - Linux kernel module handling
Information
Mailing list: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org (no subscription needed) https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/
Signed packages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/
Git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod
Irc: #kmod on irc.freenode.org
License: LGPLv2.1+ for libkmod, testsuite and helper libraries GPLv2+ for tools/*
OVERVIEW
kmod is a set of tools to handle common tasks with Linux kernel modules like insert, remove, list, check properties, resolve dependencies and aliases.
These tools are designed on top of libkmod, a library that is shipped with kmod. See libkmod/README for more details on this library and how to use it. The aim is to be compatible with tools, configurations and indexes from module-init-tools project.
Compilation and installation
In order to compile the source code you need the following software packages: - GCC/CLANG compiler - GNU C library / musl / uClibc
Optional dependencies: - ZLIB library - LZMA library - ZSTD library - OPENSSL library (signature handling in modinfo)
Typical configuration:
./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2" --prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib
Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages.
To compile and install run: make && make install
Hacking
Run 'autogen.sh' script before configure. If you want to accept the recommended
flags, you just need to run autogen.sh c.
Make sure to read the CODING-STYLE file and the other READMEs: libkmod/README and testsuite/README.
Compatibility with module-init-tools
kmod replaced module-init-tools, which was EOL'ed in 2011. All the tools were rewritten on top of libkmod and they can be used as drop in replacements. Along the years there were a few behavior changes and new features implemented, following feedback from Linux kernel community and distros.