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Since -pre6:
- Picked up Philip Blundell's changes from the opengroup CVS tree.
- Picked up RTH's changes from the opengroup CVS tree.
- Add support for ksymoops debugging of modules.
Since -pre2:
- Upgraded "create_syms" to be usable after a kernel "make modules_install"
- Added option "-q" to insmod and modprobe for silent loading.
- Depmod logic restructured, Test an extreme case with /etc/modules.conf:
depfile=/lib/modules/modules.dep
path=/lib/modules
This is example is just for testing, but it is a good test.
You might like the "-q" option to depmod...
With "-q" modprobe will now silently seriously probe for a good stack.
Strong recommendation: Always use modprobe rather than insmod,
unless you absolutely have to (such as if you are developing
a new module)!!! You will only gain from this strategy.
Since snap-990308:
- Additional keywords for /etc/modules.conf:
if, else, elseif, endif, include, define, above, below
- Also uses wordexp() or glob() if available.
- All arguments in config files are expanded w.r.t. meta-characters.
- New depmod options (some especially for distribution maintainers):
-C file Use alternate config file
-F file Read kernel symbols from a file
-b base Work with a moved image of /lib/modules
-q Keep QUIET about unresolved symbols
-n Don't do it, just show it
- Modprobe has (most of) the same additional options.
Since snap-990228:
- Fixed a buffer overflow in depmod, bug report from:
Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Since 2.1.121:
- Heavy restructuring
- Made "modprobe -r" able to clean up "autoclean" modules.
- Replaced modprobe and depmod with updated C++ versions based on
the work of Jacques Gelinas.
- Converted modprobe to C and merged it with insmod
Since 2.1.107:
- ARM and MIPS ports added.
- Compilation in a separate directory works.
Since 2.1.85:
- Insmod's -L parameter used by modprobe to prevent races.
Since 2.1.71:
- Handling of local symbols revamped, so that ld -r objects work
properly when they have "conflicting" symbols.
- Modules may have .*.init sections which are freed after init_module
runs. Note that the module must have _very_ large initial data for
this to have any effect at all. Modules with large firmware blocks
to download are good candidates though.
- Aliases are now matched through globbing (for devfs), and
aliases of aliases resolve properly.
Since 2.1.55:
- Build process now uses an autoconf-generated configure script.
- New program modinfo to display information embedded in the object
files of 2.1.x-style modules (by Tom Dyas, still in development).
- Recognize quoted parameter strings for 2.0.x modules.
- Kerneld zombie bug fixed.
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