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kmod 3
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- New APIs in libkmod to:
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- Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section
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- Get dependency symbols
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- Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded
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- Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands,
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blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback
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function.
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- Support to load modules compressed with xz
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- Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be
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called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools.
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E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a
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1:1 replacement of module-init-tools.
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- The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary
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APIs in libkmod.
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- If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must
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check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added
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in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it.
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- An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not
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handle unaligned access can use kmod, too.
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kmod 2
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Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias
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matched more than one module.
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- New APIs in libkmod to:
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- Get soft dependencies
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- Get info from module files parsing ELF
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- Get modversions from files parsing ELF
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- Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to
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gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag
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- Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion
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- Support to force and nowait removal flags
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- Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are
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sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same
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name obey a precedence order
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- New tool: kmod-modinfo
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- kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe.
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The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These
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last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from
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modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it
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maintains compabitility with modprobe.
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- linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod
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kmod 1
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First version of kmod and its library, libkmod.
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In the libkmod it's currently possible to:
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- List modules currently loaded
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- Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount,
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holders, sections, address and size
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- Lookup modules by alias, module name or path
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- Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be
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passed, but flags are not implemented, yet
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- Remove modules
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- Filter list of modules using blacklist
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- For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove
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commands
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- Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later
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Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools:
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- kmod-lsmod
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- kmod-insmod
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- kmod-rmmod
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- kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep,
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dump configuration, show modversions)
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