2 o depmod: make building map files optional (does anyone use them anyway?)
3 o demod: use shortened path names in index files (relative paths used)
4 o modprobe: use /sys/module rather than /proc/modules (Andreas)
5 o modprobe: remove legacy support for pre-2.6 kernels (Andreas)
6 o modprobe: check that asprintf() calls actually allocate (Andreas)
9 o binary indexing file support (Alan Jenkins)
10 o depmod: fix some memory leaks, reduce overhead (Alan Jenkins)
11 o modprobe: fix some memory leaks, reduce overhead (Alan Jenkins)
12 o rmmod: fix some memory leaks (Alan Jenkins)
13 o testsuite: update the tests (Alan Jenkins)
17 o modprobe: add ability to parse kernel command line for module options.
20 o modinfo: add a kernel parameter for info on modules used by other kernels.
21 o lsmod: modprobe: Comment fixes (thanks Satoru Takeuchi)
22 o modprobe: don't mangle - in wildcards within [ ] (patch from Sam Morris)
23 o new mintainer: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
24 o switch to using git for project maintainance
25 o misc. memory leakage/build/docs fixes (Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino)
26 o correct error handling and insmod.static handling (Tobias Stoeckmann)
27 o various other fixes to build/development process.
30 o depmod: Try to generate correct input tables for 2.6.14 and above (thanks to report from Scott James Remnant)
33 o depmod: macio device support (patch from Jeff Mahoney)
36 o depmod: serio support (patch from Dmitry Torokhov)
37 o modprobe: Fix load by symbol (thanks to Nathan Lutchansky)
38 o modinfo: Handle parmtype: for 2.6.11
39 o depmod: handle other endian (already handle 64 & 32 bit)
40 o modprobe, rmmod, depmod: check for OOM (patch from Andreas Gruenbacher)
41 o depmod: don't skip first argument for explicit files (patch from Andrew Snare)
42 o depmod: handle relative paths in explicit files
43 o modprobe: load all matching aliases (idea from Dominik Brodowski)
44 o modprobe: new blacklist keyword (patch from Erik van Konijnenburg)
45 o CODING: new document describing testsuite
46 o Makefile: include testsuite inside all source releases
47 o modprobe: slow down modprobe with gratuitous stat for Reiser4 braindamage (Reported by Gentoo)
48 o Makefile.am: Use @mandir@, unless it's just prefix/mandir (discussion with Jeremy C. Reed)
49 o Added $CMDLINE_OPTS substitution to install commands.
50 o depmod: don't explode on invalid modules (patch from Bill Nottingham)
51 o modprobe: unlock fd when module already in kernel (either a race, or a rename) (patch from Oliver Blin, reworked)
52 o modprobe.conf.sgml: docbook2man uses last refentrytitle for output file (fixes endusers needing docbook utils for build)
53 o modprobe: fix gcc-2.95 compilation by declaring va_list at top of warn() (thanks Rafiq Ismail)
54 o modprobe: doco fix: -a takes module names, not wildcards.
55 o depmod, modprobe: gcc 4 signedness warning fixes (thanks to Marco d'Itri)
56 o modprobe: lock before seeing if module in kernel (might be doing init now!)
57 o testsuite: use --log-fd (valgrind 3) not --logfile-fd.
58 o modprobe: spin to avoid parallel load attempts when lock failed. Fixes "unknown symbols for ehci_hcd" bug with parallel udev on ro root. (Patch from Pozsar Balazs)
61 o modprobe, rmmod: Fix format string (thanks to Sergey Vlasov)
62 o modinfo: support -n, and by default display filename.
63 o modprobe: allow -o with -r to remove renamed modules with deps correct.
64 o modprobe: fall back to /etc/modprobe.d if fail on /etc/modprobe.conf.
65 o modprobe: allow config files to be directories, and recurse.
66 o modprobe: Fix quoting of cmdline options.
67 o insmod: remove quote handling, since we didn't do it right.
68 o depmod: ignore symbols (eg. PCI ids) in BSS (patch from Marc Boucher).
69 o depmod: exit after -h.
70 o modprobe: file locking on modules to avoid spurious errors if they race (report from Marc Boucher)
71 o modprobe: Fall back to read-only (no locking) if rw open on module fails
72 o depmod: updates/ dir overrides (for RH, thanks to Thomas Vander Stichele)
73 o depmod: don't follow symlinks, broken in updates/ rework (thanks to Marco d'Itri)
74 o Bashisms removed (thanks to David Weinehall)
75 o modinfo: use modules.dep, not manual search, so we get updates/ right.
76 o Fix modinfo manpage missing word (thanks Debian)
77 o modprobe.devfs: added apm_bios devices (thanks Debian)
78 o modprobe: don't fatal() on missing includes (thanks Debian)
79 o modprobe: install/remove commands must override modules.alias file.
80 o Fix modprobe man page to document --show-depends and install commands (reported by Eric C. Cooper)
81 o Fix modprobe man page: -t -a removed in 3.0 (report from Thomas Hood)
82 o Document modprobe.d in modprobe(.conf) man page (report from Stefan Richter)
85 o Update missing script (report from Robin Grindley)
86 o "depmod <version>" implies -a (report from Robin Grindley)
87 o modprobe: remove -t without -l: it didn't work, so obviously noone was
89 o modprobe: Allow "-a mod1 mod2" (report from Frédéric L. W. Meunier).
90 o modprobe: Fixed short alloc in merge_args.
91 o testsuite: run everything under valgrind.
92 o modprobe: change tabs to spaces in module parameters.
93 o modprobe: define STT_REGISTER if not defined (report Bill Nottingham)
94 o modinfo: -p means "parm" not "param" (report from Peter Cordes)
95 o Rmmod man page description is wrong (report from Pawel)
96 o modprobe: don't access off end of argv[] when '-c' used.
97 o depmod: merged Takashi Iwai's isapnp table code (with changes).
98 o modprobe.conf.sgml: Indicate that command is a shell command.
99 o rmmod: exit with non-zero on any failure (thanks to Serue Hallyen)
100 o generate-modprobe.conf: fix up char and block aliases
101 (thanks to OGAWA Hirofumi)
102 o modprobe: Fix warning about passing (and fix that fix thanks to Keith Moore)
103 o depmod: merged Andrey Borzenkov's input table code (with changes).
104 o modprobe: install/remove commands can be wildcards, set $MODPROBE_MODULE.
105 o modprobe: inserting already-inserted is fine, as is removing already-removed.
106 o modprobe: Add --first-time for old behavior
107 o generate-modprobe.conf: Use --first-time for above and below commands.
108 o FAQ: Fix generate-modprobe.conf question (report from Norman Diamond)
109 o generate-modprobe.conf: Don't complain about common (no longer required) options
110 o generate-modprobe.conf: Prevent "modprobe.old: command not found" message.
111 o modprobe: fix semantics of -t to match any dir part (thanks to Paul Whittaker)
112 o testsuite: test-rmmod/05noproc.sh relies on not being root (thanks to Pierre)
113 o modprobe: handle infinite recursion caused by already-inserted, where
114 dependency has install command but is already installed (thanks to Trond Myklebust)
115 o configure.in: remove -Wcast-align, gives warnings on IA64 (thanks to
117 o install-with-care: don't hardcode /usr/bin/install (thanks Pierre)
118 o generate-modprobe.conf: handle "add" lines in modules.conf
119 o modprobe: -q now only means "silently succeed on unknown modules".
120 o modprobe: update usage message
121 o modprobe: flush stdout on verbose, so we always print before children.
122 o runtests: continue after (optional) test name.
123 o Makefile.am: moveold checks for already having been run.
124 o depmod: Handle -C correctly (thanks Richard Hirst)
125 o Makefile.am: "make check" succeeds if no testcase, or no valgrind.
126 o depmod: Remove non-working __start and __stop logic, and ignore unknown
127 "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_" for s390 (patch from Arnd Bergmann)
128 o modprobe: revert "innocuous change" to skip rest of depends on insertion,
129 if this module is already in kernel. But in a depends on b and c,
130 and b is already inserted, we should not skip inserting c!
131 o configure.in: remove unused $(stat_zlib_flags)
132 o Makefile.am: build insmod.static properly with --enable-zlib
133 (thanks to Andy Wang)
134 o generate-modprobe.conf: handle "add alias xxx off" correctly
135 (thanks to Martin Schlemmer)
136 o modprobe.c: revert -q behaviour: silent, but exit code 1.
139 o Don't use syscall macros, use libc wrappers instead
140 (patch from Marian Jancar)
141 o insmod: Allow module from stdin (eg. zcat foo.ko.gz | insmod -).
142 o depmod: Remove old compat code to recognise ".o" and ".klm" as modules.
143 o depmod: Implement -A properly (zlib is too slow).
144 o depmod: zlib support.
145 o modinfo: zlib support.
146 o modinfo: handle - vs _ when searching for module.
147 o modprobe: zlib support.
148 o modprobe: remove unused fd var (patch from Andrey Borzenkov)
149 o depmod: fix .ko.gz short names in tables (patch from Andrey Borzenkov)
150 o configure.in: --moddir (patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real, GoboLinux)
151 o modprobe: -r with multiple args (as per modutils) (bug from Harald Dunkel)
152 o modprobe: Make -q ignore unknown modules
153 o modprobe: Make -q still set exit value (bug from Jamie Lokier).
156 o generate-modprobe.conf: Add --stdin (patch from Bill Nottingham)
157 o README: Spelling fix (patch from Alex Goddard)
158 o modprobe: print options out after modules for --show-depends, and
159 prefix with "insmod" (in case we want to show commands later).
160 o modprobe: make --show-depends show commands (prefix: install).
161 o Always use syscall() in backwards_compat.c: other archs want it.
162 o depmod.c: Fix fd leak for deep dirs (patch from Arjan van de Ven)
163 o modprobe.sgml: document -o/--name option.
164 o modprobe: include files aliases should override: modprobe.devfs wants this
165 so users can override (patch from Martin Schlemmer)
166 o depmod: fix handling of bad args (reported by Gorik Van Steenberge)
167 o insmod: do --version/-V
168 o depmod: fix "all modules are inside loop" corner case
169 o depmod: Temporary file then move (patch from Andrey Borzenkov).
170 o generate-modprobe.conf: Added space to PREINSTALL and PREREMOVE
171 before semicolon (Patch from Marian Jancar)
172 o insmod: Backwards compat for insmod.static, too (Thanks to Marian Jancar)
175 o modprobe.8: Document --set-version (Debian bug #187123, thanks Herbert)
176 o rmmod.8: Fix raw lsmod(8) references (use proper sgml markup).
177 o modinfo.c, rmmod.c: Fix includes for when no backwards compat
178 (Thanks to Bill Nottingham).
179 o Makefile.am: lsmod.old symlink from /bin to /sbin in move-old-targets
180 o depmod: sparc gcc register variable fake undefined fix.
181 o Makefile.am: Handle Mandrake's .bz2 man pages (Thanks to Paolo Giarrusso)
182 o depmod: backwards compat at 2.5.48, not 2.5.47 (Thanks to Martin Schimschak)
183 o depmod: ieee1394 support (Thanks to Ben Collins)
184 o depmod: updated test suite for ieee1394
185 o Makefile: make symlink from /sbin/lsmod to /bin/lsmod if that's where we're going.
186 o modinfo: add manual page.
187 o modprobe: --show-depends (Asked by Herbert Xu for mkinitrd).
188 o depmod: Simply and fix loop detection for non-trivial loops
191 o Makefile: docbook2man fix (Thanks to Terje Rosten)
192 o Makefile: make install man pages work with autoconf 1.4 (Thanks to Terje Rosten)
195 o generate-modprobe.conf: Avoid "modprobe version" in stdout.
196 o generate-modprobe.conf: Fix translation of "options dummy0 -o dummy0"
197 o modprobe: add --set-version
198 o modprobe: Add MODPROBE_OPTIONS env. var, and use it to pass some options.
199 o Fix make moveold: (Thanks to Pavel Roskin, Will Stephenson)
200 o README: Mention modprobe.devfs for devfs users (Thanks to Pavel Roskin)
201 o lsmod: belongs in /bin, not /sbin (Thanks to Marco d'Itri)
202 o Makefile: create man directories (Thanks to John Levon)
203 o Makefile: no, use normal automake (Thanks v. much to John Levon)
204 o Makefile: docbook2man tweaks and cleanups (Thanks to Terje Rosten)
205 o Makefile: include man pages in dist, and clean in maintainer-clean
206 (Martin Schlemmer's report).
209 o modprobe: Remove old .gnu.linkonce.modname renaming code
210 o modprobe: Add -q flag.
211 o srpm: install generate-modprobe.conf, too.
212 o install: move kallsyms and ksyms as well to point to insmod.old
213 (Andrew Morton's report)
214 o generate-modprobe.conf: don't worry about if statements: modprobe -c
216 o modprobe: Look for __module section as well as
217 .gnu.linkonce.this_module in renaming code.
218 o modprobe: modules.devfsd handling, too (thanks to Martin Schlemmer).
219 o modprobe.devfs: New file for devfs people.
220 o modprobe: Handle vermagic in .modinfo section as well as own section.
221 o depmod: Handle aliases in .modinfo section as well as .modalias section
222 o Warnings added to build process.
223 o modinfo: new binary
224 o modinfo: new testcases
225 o generate-modprobe.conf: handle missing mktemp
228 o Install generate-modprobe.conf, too.
230 o generate-modprobe.conf: use mktemp with an arg (Luuk van der Duim's report)
231 o Richard Henderson's weak symbol support.
232 o Anton's .foo == foo support for PPC64.
233 o --force for removing version information
234 o generate-modprobe.conf: fix one arg usage (Bug from David van Hoose)
235 o generate-modprobe.conf: add ; inside { } (from Martin Schlemmer)
236 o Kai's --force-version patch, modified.
237 o Zibx Verituse's multiple whitespace in parser patch.
238 o depmod: Handle strings for GPL in separate section, too.
239 o lsmod: remove double unistd include (Bug from Dennis Schulz)
240 o modprobe: Document --force* and -s
243 o Use docbook2man if docbook-to-man not found (Warren Togami's bug report)
244 o Implement -s in modprobe
245 o If stderr is not open, act as if "--syslog" was given.
246 o Remove documentation about aliases not overriding real modules.
247 o Add support for modules.alias and modules.symbols to depmod and modprobe.
248 o Fix handling of errors in modprobe.conf (Roger Luethi's bug report)
249 o Petr Vandrovec's __gpl_ksymtab fix.
253 o modules.conf2modprobe.conf "above" and "below" support.
254 o Silly typo in filename to modname conversion.
255 o Double free fix (Marco d'Itri)
256 o Add --dry-run as synonym for --show everywhere.
257 o Change backwards compat test to sys_create_module(NULL, 0) != -ENOSYS,
258 for people who want /proc/ksyms.
259 o modules.conf2modprobe.conf renamed to generate-modprobe.conf, uses
260 modprobe -c to get built-ins as well.
263 o Fix aliases using - and _ (thanks to Roger Luethi)
264 o Audit for more _ - comparisons: canonicalize at input.
265 o Fix "include overrides alias" bug found during audit.
267 o lsmod ignores trailing (new-style) entries in /proc/modules, and deletes ,.
268 o message segfault due to reusing varargs fixed.
269 o Give 0 exit status with --dry-run with wildcards (Roger Luethi's bug report)
270 o Add --all option (Roger Luethi's bug report)
271 o Fix double-insert problem caused by symlinks (Roger Luethi's bug report)
272 o Ignore undefined __start_ and __stop_ as future kernel might.
273 o Report loops only once.
274 o Fix complex duplicate elimination handling.
275 o Implemented --ignore-command in modprobe
276 o Implemented "remove" in modprobe's modprobe.conf parsing.
277 o Don't die if /proc/modules can't be opened.
278 o Modprobe -r checks for in-use modules before trying.
279 o Warn about lines in modprobe.conf which aren't understood.
280 o Remove extra spaces in options generated by modprobe.
281 o Extract 64/32 moduleops into common code.
282 o Reimplemented wildcard aliases.
283 o Horrible workaround for devfsd.
284 o Fix handling of wildcards in modules.conf2modprobe.conf
287 o Fix bogus compare code where "modprobe tuner" loaded tun module
288 (Thanks to Marco d'Itri's bug report).
289 o Handle rth-style modules in modprobe namechange code.
290 o Marco d'Itri's patch to correct quotes
291 o Marco d'Itri's patch to implement -A.
292 o Fixed rmmod's message when no unload support.
293 o Fix backwards compat recursion protection to compare PIDs (Petr Vandrovec)
294 o Implement -F and -e.
295 o Tweak message when invalid parameter given (Roger Luethi's report)
298 o Implement loop detection and duplicate elimination (thanks to Jeff
299 Chua's ide.ko / ide-io.ko bug report)
300 o Fix stress_modules.sh script for new names and dir layout
301 o Updated README to put autoconf at the bottom (most people don't need it)
302 o Implemented -v in depmod
303 o Implemented -l and -t in modprobe.
304 o Implemented -a in modprobe.
305 o Removed gratuitous configure.in target test (we do 64/32 dynamically)
306 o Adam Richter's depmod patch to traverse above kernel/ dir.
307 o Fix -r to be properly ignored (Chris Cheney's bug report)
310 o Fix modprobe -r ordering (tried to remove backwards) (Jim Radford's report)
311 o David Brownell's extra rmmod options (modified)
314 o Matthieu Verbert <mve@zurich.ibm.com>'s objdir != srcdir install fix.
315 o Fixed insmod option ignores (Petr Vandrovec's bug report)
316 o Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>'s modules.ccwmap implementation.
317 o Jim Radford <radford@blackbean.org>'s modprobe -r implementation.
320 o Include install-with-care script in dist
323 o Added install-with-care script to check we're not destroying old utils
324 o Split moveold into two targets for gentoo
325 o Don't use readlink in moveold: RH8.0 doesn't have it by default
326 o Fix ia64 _syscall5 problem (undefined reference to `__ia64_syscall')
329 o Fixed patch in NEWS to leave #include linux/elf.h, needed for
331 o Fixed extra newline in "in use by" message.
332 o Fixed parsing for new-style /proc/modules.
333 o Fixed version parsing code (thanks to Adam Richter's report)
334 o Fixed "running out of filedescriptors" (Adam Richter)
335 o Implemented options in modprobe
336 o Implemented install in modprobe
337 o Implemented options in modules.conf2modprobe.conf
338 o Implemented install in modules.conf2modprobe.conf
339 o Implemented probeall in modules.conf2modprobe.conf
340 o Implemented probe in modules.conf2modprobe.conf
341 o Changed modprobe version to be constant string, for "strings" to work easily.
344 o Fixed erroneous warning on rmmod saying it didn't find module in
348 o Chris Cheney's automake patch
349 o Adam J. Richter's "use depmod" patch (simplifies aliases, handles include)
350 o Cleaned up error handling a little
351 o Implemented --name/-o to change module name (requires Kai's modname patch)
352 o David Hardeman's dummy options patch for Debian.
353 o Updated version number (thanks to David Hardeman).
354 o Fix "sbin not in path" .old exec problem.
355 o Remove assumptions about module extension.
356 o Added "links" and "moveold" targets, and leave using them to the user.
357 o Implemented new depmod which works with current kernels, calls old
358 one for previous kernels.
359 o First cut of modules.conf2modprobe.conf
360 o Implemented dummy insmod -p, -s and -f options, requested by Petr Vandrovec
363 o 64/32 bit autodetection thanks to Dave Miller
364 o Preliminary alias support.
365 o Very primitive /etc/modprobe.conf support
366 o Fix for "rmmod ide-cd" (bug from Jens Axboe)
367 o Options args for modprobe