- State support for clang and other libc's - Fix typos - Reword the compatibility with module-init-tools section, removing most of the specific examples as we didn't keep track of all of them, and they are not important anymore in year 2024 Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@xxxxxxxxx> --- README.md | 65 +++++++------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9b22bd7..1aa023d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ module-init-tools project. Compilation and installation ============================ -In order to compiler the source code you need following software packages: - - GCC compiler - - GNU C library +In order to compile the source code you need following software packages: + - GCC/CLANG compiler + - GNU C library / musl / uClibc Optional dependencies: - ZLIB library @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Hacking ======= Run 'autogen.sh' script before configure. If you want to accept the recommended -flags, you just need to run 'autogen.sh c'. +flags, you just need to run `autogen.sh c`. Make sure to read the CODING-STYLE file and the other READMEs: libkmod/README and testsuite/README. @@ -75,56 +75,7 @@ and testsuite/README. Compatibility with module-init-tools ==================================== -kmod replaces module-init-tools, which is end-of-life. Most of its tools are -rewritten on top of libkmod so it can be used as a drop in replacements. -Somethings however were changed. Reasons vary from "the feature was already -long deprecated on module-init-tools" to "it would be too much trouble to -support it". - -There are several features that are being added in kmod, but we don't -keep track of them here. - -modprobe --------- - -* 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore - -* 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l' - -* modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in - '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files. - -* modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration - files. - -* modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.: - config: - - install bli "echo bli" - install bla "echo bla" - softdep bla pre: bli - - With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be: - install "echo bla" - - While with kmod: - install "echo bli" - install "echo bla" - -* kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it - dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names - are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration - kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content - of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories - -depmod ------- - -* there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone - -lsmod ------ - -* module-init-tools used /proc/modules to parse module info. kmod uses - /sys/module/*, but there's a fallback to /proc/modules if the latter isn't - available +kmod replaced module-init-tools, which was EOL'ed in 2011. All the tools were +rewritten on top of libkmod and they can be used as drop in replacements. +Along the years there were a few behavior changes and new features implemented, +following feedback from Linux kernel community and distros. -- 2.45.2
