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@@ -1,126 +0,0 @@ -kmod - Linux kernel module handling - -Information -=========== - -Mailing list: - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org (no subscription needed) - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/ - -Signed packages: - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/ - -Git: - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git - http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git - -Gitweb: - http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git - https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod - -Irc: - #kmod on irc.freenode.org - -License: - LGPLv2.1+ for libkmod, testsuite and helper libraries - GPLv2+ for tools/* - - -OVERVIEW -======== - -kmod is a set of tools to handle common tasks with Linux kernel modules like -insert, remove, list, check properties, resolve dependencies and aliases. - -These tools are designed on top of libkmod, a library that is shipped with -kmod. See libkmod/README for more details on this library and how to use it. -The aim is to be compatible with tools, configurations and indexes from -module-init-tools project. - -Compilation and installation -============================ - -In order to compiler the source code you need following software packages: - - GCC compiler - - GNU C library - -Optional dependencies: - - ZLIB library - - LZMA library - -Typical configuration: - ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2" --prefix=/usr \ - --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib - -Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages. - -To compile and install run: - make && make install - -Hacking -======= - -Run 'autogen.sh' script before configure. If you want to accept the recommended -flags, you just need to run 'autogen.sh c'. Note that the recommended -flags require cython be installed to compile successfully. - -Make sure to read the CODING-STYLE file and the other READMEs: libkmod/README -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 |