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README: Move items from TODO
Put the differences between kmod and module-init-tools in the README file so it's more visible.
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Irc:
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#kmod on irc.freenode.org
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Compatibility with module-init-tools
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====================================
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kmod replaces module-init-tools, which is end-of-life. Most of its tools are
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rewritten on top of libkmod so it can be used as a drop in replacements.
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Somethings however were changed. Reasons vary from "the feature was already
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long deprecated on module-init-tools" to "it would be too much trouble to
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support it".
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There are several features that are being added in kmod, but we don't
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keep track of them here.
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modprobe
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--------
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* 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
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* 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
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* modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
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'.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
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* modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
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files.
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* modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
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config:
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install bli "echo bli"
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install bla "echo bla"
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softdep bla pre: bli
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With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
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install "echo bla"
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While with kmod:
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install "echo bli"
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install "echo bla"
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* kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
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dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
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are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
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kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
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of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
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depmod
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------
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* there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
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lsmod
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-----
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* module-init-tools used /proc/modules to parse module info. kmod uses
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/sys/module/*, but there's a fallback to /proc/modules if the latter isn't
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available
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* kill /proc/modules ?
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- Unlikely, given other tools might depend on it
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Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO)
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===================================================================
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modprobe
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--------
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* 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
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* 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
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* there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to modprobe so we
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can remove modules depending on that one
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* modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
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'.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
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* modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
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files.
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* modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
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config:
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install bli "echo bli"
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install bla "echo bla"
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softdep bla pre: bli
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With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
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install "echo bla"
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While with kmod:
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install "echo bli"
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install "echo bla"
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* kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
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dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
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are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
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kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
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of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
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depmod
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------
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* there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
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lsmod
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-----
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* information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules
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kmod_unref(ctx);
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Modules can be created with by various means:
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Modules can be created by various means:
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struct kmod_module *mod;
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int err;
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