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: - Get soft dependencies - Get info from module files parsing ELF - Get modversions from files parsing ELF - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to gzipped 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 sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same name obey a precedence order - New tool: kmod-modinfo - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe. The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it maintains compabitility with modprobe. - linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 Rodríguez (2): Library must use O_CLOEXEC whenever it opens file descriptors Open more file descriptors with O_CLOEXEC Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (22): implement zlib module loading. fix error handling path. implement softdeps. fix kmod_list_prev(). introduce kmod_list_last() introduce kmod_list_foreach_reverse(). kmod-modprobe: implement softdeps. compatibility: match commands using fnmatch() instead of strcmp(). TODO: add idea about single file with all compressed modules. ELF: initial support for modinfo and strip of modversions and vermagic. kmod-modprobe: implement --dump-modversions kmod-modprobe: improve --help output. elf: fix minimum file size calculation. Introduce kmod-modinfo. kmod-modinfo: add missing short options. kmod-modinfo: fix typo and output format. elf: do not output empty strings. kmod-modinfo: -p (-F parm) shows also parmtype in Debian expected formatting. elf: fix typo that resulted in invalid uint reads for big-endian platforms. elf: skip leading symbol dot in modversion. kmod_module_new_*: improve debugging. configure: disable static zlib build. Jan Engelhardt (3): libkmod: use C99 __func__ over GNU-specific __FUNCTION__ gitignore: only ignore build system files in the top directory build: use dist-xz Kay Sievers (1): introduce --with-rootprefix=DIR Lucas De Marchi (33): TODO: add new tasks and notes to future development tools: fix kmod-modprobe -R trying to insert module Add address of mailing list kmod_module: do not find more than the first command Lookup for commands in kmod_module_new_from_lookup() Use tab instead of spaces Fix leak of kmod_module Fix wrong name len when converting path to modname kmod_modprobe: fix handling of remove commands kmod_modprobe: properly handle install/remove commands Fix debug message formatting build-sys: remove unneeded _SOURCES vars Reduce ident by continuing early Terminate strv with NULL Put blank lines where it's due Remove unneeded reference to last string Optimize kmod_elf_get_strings() by reducing calls to memcpy Make section size constant since it's always the same Cache the offset of crc elf: fix regression with empty strings Fix check for opened indexes kmod_modprobe: Fix regression when inserting module kmod_config: fix kcmd line parser with dots after = Use sorted configuration files in precedence order kmod_modprobe: fix description of -C flag build-sys: default to "" as rootprefix build-sys: remove remaining _SOURCES var Move symbols introduced in libkmod2 to the right place Removing comments saying flags are not implemented build-sys: do not use some compile flags by default Update doc to reflect function behavior Change error message to reflect reality kmod 2 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes (2): Removing warnings when compiling on i686 platform. Testing for return of alias_normalize. Ulisses Furquim (1): trivial: fix typo causing an infinite loop Lucas De Marchi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
