kmod 11 is out: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod-11.tar.xz ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod-11.tar.sign This is the greatest release ever for those using compressed modules (I'd like to rather remove it, but some distros are using it so it's unlikely to happen soon). When using compressed modules there was a bug regarding modules.order since forever. Now distros don't have to tweak this file anymore and user can freely mix compressed and non-compressed modules. The time needed for running depmod has been greatly reduced with this release. And this is not exclusive to those using compressed modules. For non-compressed modules there were reports of a speedup of 3x in depmod. Check http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;a=commit;h=1eff942e37adda55bd8c506d4e2a7970fdbf7a74 for details... the timings got improved even more after that commit. Testsuite also got bug fixes and is now capable of comparing output files to decide if a test succeeded. Other projects using our testsuite should upgrade to this new version. Due to the major refactor in depmod needed to accomplish the speedup mentioned above, I thought about releasing a -rc1 but then decided to go straight with a release since it would probably not help a lot. Please give it more time than usual in your distro testing repository. If a major bug is found I'll just release another version sooner than usual. Last but not least, "--wait" option to rmmod is gone. Or at least it's now hidden and causing a sleep of 10s if user decides to use it. The reason is that this feature is being deprecated on kernel side since it doesn't have any good reason to exist and causes some pain to maintain. Take a look in NEWS file for more details on changes. Shortlog is below. Cheers! Lucas De Marchi --- Dave Reisner (5): Revert "build-sys: disable jobserver for rootfs target" Define rootfs as dependency of check-am Makefile: remove redundant flags to $(RM) modinfo: clarify verbiage for field shortcuts build-sys: Remove --with-rootprefix option Jan Engelhardt (1): NEWS: language corrections Leandro Pereira (1): libkmod-hash: Plug possible memory leak when free_value is defined Lucas De Marchi (38): testsuite: Fix double definition of 64-bits variant build-sys: Append -Werror when testing flags depmod: fix parsing of modules.order with compressed modules testsuite: allow to check generated files testsuite: add depmod test for modules.alias libkmod: Add support for '.' in module parameter on kcmdline rmmod: Deprecate --wait option libkmod: cache open file for later access build-sys: use AS_IF autoconf macro depmod: do not create a hole in struct depmod depmod: cache info_list in struct mod depmod: cache dependency_symbol list in struct mod depmod: use our copy of modname instead of calling libkmod depmod: unref kmod_module once we don't need it anymore modprobe: exit in one place modprobe: use prio_to_str() helper modprobe: prefix libkmod messages to stderr with modprobe: modprobe: move log function modprobe: prefix log messages to stderr with modprobe modprobe: use ERR() instead of fprintf(stderr, ...) depmod: prefer ERR and WRN over plain fprintf TODO: update file with tasks depmod: remove inline from _log depmod: add depmod prefix to log messages insmod: prefer ERR over plain fprintf modinfo: prefer ERR over plain fprintf rmmod: prefer ERR over plain fprintf rmmod: route all messages to syslog if told to tools: share getting program name from argv for all tools tools: share function to convert prio to string tools: make usage() messages go to stdout rather than stderr tools: use a single function for logging libkmod output tools: share setting up libkmod log tools: share function for logging tools: staticize functions that are now only used in log.c tools: use program_invocation_short_name provided by libc TODO: remove completed action kmod 11 Sami Kerola (1): build-sys: require xsltproc when manpages are enabled -- 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
