From cd923111c6c5352d7fa1b9a73fde25008b47c7f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucas De Marchi Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:26:47 -0300 Subject: README: Move items from TODO Put the differences between kmod and module-init-tools in the README file so it's more visible. --- README | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TODO | 51 --------------------------------------------------- libkmod/README | 2 +- 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 65499cc..a2a2a5c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -59,3 +59,60 @@ Gitweb: Irc: #kmod on irc.freenode.org + +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 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e3f81d1..50e7483 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -47,54 +47,3 @@ Things to be added/removed in kernel (check what is really needed): * kill /proc/modules ? - Unlikely, given other tools might depend on it - - - -Things that are different from module-init-tools on purpose (!TODO) -=================================================================== - -modprobe --------- - -* 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore - -* 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l' - -* there's and additional '--remove-dependencies' flags to modprobe so we - can remove modules depending on that one - -* 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 ------ - -* information is parsed from /sys instead of /proc/modules diff --git a/libkmod/README b/libkmod/README index d0ca2fc..3e1c8dc 100644 --- a/libkmod/README +++ b/libkmod/README @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Every user should create and manage it's own library context with: kmod_unref(ctx); -Modules can be created with by various means: +Modules can be created by various means: struct kmod_module *mod; int err; -- cgit v1.2.1