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Features:
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* config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a
vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling
bsearch().
* index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one
with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it.
* create test-mock library to be LD_PRELOAD'ed before running the binaries
so we're able to create unit tests
* Add functions to dump configuration. Create a list with the config items
(blacklist, aliases, etc) or just dump to a fd?
* Add functions to list all modules known by modules.dep
* provide 1:1 compatibility with module-init-tools's modprobe
- dump configuration
- deal with dependency loop
- fix dependency listing in --show-depends
$ modprobe -S 3.2.0-2-ARCH --show-depends ahci
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/libahci.ko.gz
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-2-ARCH/kernel/drivers/ata/ahci.ko.gz
* Add manpages: copy them from module-init-tools and make the necessary changes
* review API, maybe unify all of these setters:
- kmod_module_version_get_symbol()
- kmod_module_version_get_crc()
- kmod_module_symbol_get_symbol()
- kmod_module_symbol_get_crc()
- kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_symbol()
- kmod_module_dependency_symbol_get_crc()
- kmod_module_versions_free_list()
- kmod_module_symbols_free_list()
- kmod_module_dependency_symbols_free_list()
* provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed
and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry
compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick
individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression
does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide
it. The file format should be something like:
MAGIC-ID
DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE
DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size)
ENTRIES (each is a compressed module)
Helper binary to:
kmod-archive list
kmod-archive add path.ko
kmod-archive rm path.ko
kmod-archive get path.ko
kmod-archive exists path.ko
Known Bugs:
===========
Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed):
===================================================================
* list of currently loaded modules
* module's size should be available under /sys
* kill /proc/modules ?
Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
===================================================================
modprobe
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* 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
* 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
* there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to kmod-modprobe so we
can remove modules depending on that one
* kmod-modprobe doesn't parse configuration files whose name don't end on
'.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
* kmod-modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
files.
* we don't use <module-dir>/modules.builtin{,.bin} indexes. Instead we rely on
module appearing on /sys/modules/* without a initstate file to determine if
it is builtin.
depmod
------
* there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
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