[ANNOUNCE] kmod 2

* [ANNOUNCE] kmod 2
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@ 2011-12-21  2:35   ` Lucas De Marchi
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From: Lucas De Marchi @ 2011-12-21  2:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-modules, LKML

Hi all,

http://packages.profusion.mobi/kmod/kmod-2.tar.xz

I'm glad to announce the second version of kmod. I'm sorry for not
sending the announcement on this mailing list for the first version.
For those who didn't see the first announcement can check at
http://lwn.net/Articles/472354/.

I thank very much the feedback received for the first version and that
now Jon Masters, the maintainer of module-init-tools, is helping us
with kmod and already announced that kmod will replace
module-init-tools in future
(http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2011/12/20/libkmod-replaces-module-init-tools/).

I'd like to especially thank Tom Gundersen, Dave Reisner, Marco
d'Itri, Jon Masters, Luis Felipe, Jan Engelhardt and Kay Sievers who
have been extensively testing kmod and helping with compatibility with
previous tools. Right now kmod is tested in i686, x86_64, sparcv9,
powepc64, s390 and ARM. More testers are greatly appreciated,
especially for architectures not mentioned here.

News for this version are (copying from NEWS file):

Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias
matched more than one module.

- New APIs in libkmod to:
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½- Get soft dependencies
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½- Get info from module files parsing ELF
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½- Get modversions from files parsing ELF
- Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to
ï¿½gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag
- Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion
- Support to force and nowait removal flags
- Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are
ï¿½sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same
ï¿½name obey a precedence order
- New tool: kmod-modinfo
- kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe.
ï¿½The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These
ï¿½last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from
ï¿½modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it
ï¿½maintains compabitility with modprobe.
- linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod

For the next version, we plan to migrate our git repository to
kernel.org. Meanwhile, git repository can be found at
http://git.profusion.mobi/cgit.cgi/kmod.git/ and packages at
http://packages.profusion.mobi/kmod/

Shortlog for kmod 2 is below.

Cristian Rodrï¿½guez (2):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Library must use O_CLOEXEC whenever it opens file descriptors
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Open more file descriptors with O_CLOEXEC

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (22):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½implement zlib module loading.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½fix error handling path.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½implement softdeps.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½fix kmod_list_prev().
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½introduce kmod_list_last()
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½introduce kmod_list_foreach_reverse().
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod-modprobe: implement softdeps.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½compatibility: match commands using fnmatch() instead of strcmp().
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½TODO: add idea about single file with all compressed modules.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ELF: initial support for modinfo and strip of modversions and vermagic.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod-modprobe: implement --dump-modversions
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod-modprobe: improve --help output.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½elf: fix minimum file size calculation.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Introduce kmod-modinfo.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod-modinfo: add missing short options.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod-modinfo: fix typo and output format.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½elf: do not output empty strings.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod-modinfo: -p (-F parm) shows also parmtype in Debian
expected formatting.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½elf: fix typo that resulted in invalid uint reads for big-endian
platforms.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½elf: skip leading symbol dot in modversion.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_module_new_*: improve debugging.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½configure: disable static zlib build.

Jan Engelhardt (3):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½libkmod: use C99 __func__ over GNU-specific __FUNCTION__
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½gitignore: only ignore build system files in the top directory
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½build: use dist-xz

Kay Sievers (1):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½introduce --with-rootprefix=DIR

Lucas De Marchi (33):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½TODO: add new tasks and notes to future development
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½tools: fix kmod-modprobe -R trying to insert module
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Add address of mailing list
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_module: do not find more than the first command
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Lookup for commands in kmod_module_new_from_lookup()
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Use tab instead of spaces
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Fix leak of kmod_module
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Fix wrong name len when converting path to modname
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_modprobe: fix handling of remove commands
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_modprobe: properly handle install/remove commands
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Fix debug message formatting
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½build-sys: remove unneeded _SOURCES vars
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Reduce ident by continuing early
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Terminate strv with NULL
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Put blank lines where it's due
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Remove unneeded reference to last string
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Optimize kmod_elf_get_strings() by reducing calls to memcpy
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Make section size constant since it's always the same
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Cache the offset of crc
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½elf: fix regression with empty strings
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Fix check for opened indexes
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_modprobe: Fix regression when inserting module
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_config: fix kcmd line parser with dots after =
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Use sorted configuration files in precedence order
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod_modprobe: fix description of -C flag
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½build-sys: default to "" as rootprefix
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½build-sys: remove remaining _SOURCES var
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Move symbols introduced in libkmod2 to the right place
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Removing comments saying flags are not implemented
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½build-sys: do not use some compile flags by default
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Update doc to reflect function behavior
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Change error message to reflect reality
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½kmod 2

Luis Felipe Strano Moraes (2):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Removing warnings when compiling on i686 platform.
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Testing for return of alias_normalize.

Ulisses Furquim (1):
ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½trivial: fix typo causing an infinite loop

Lucas De Marchi

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