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README

      1 kmod - Linux kernel module handling
      2 
      3 Information
      4 ===========
      5 
      6 Build Status:
      7 	https://lucasdemarchi.semaphoreci.com/projects/kmod
      8 
      9 Mailing list:
     10 	linux-modules (a] vger.kernel.org (no subscription needed)
     11 	https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/
     12 
     13 Patchwork:
     14 	https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-modules/
     15 
     16 Signed packages:
     17 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/
     18 
     19 Git:
     20 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
     21 	http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
     22 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
     23 
     24 Gitweb:
     25 	http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
     26 
     27 Irc:
     28 	#kmod on irc.freenode.org
     29 
     30 License:
     31 	LGPLv2.1+ for libkmod, testsuite and helper libraries
     32 	GPLv2+ for tools/*
     33 
     34 
     35 OVERVIEW
     36 ========
     37 
     38 kmod is a set of tools to handle common tasks with Linux kernel modules like
     39 insert, remove, list, check properties, resolve dependencies and aliases.
     40 
     41 These tools are designed on top of libkmod, a library that is shipped with
     42 kmod. See libkmod/README for more details on this library and how to use it.
     43 The aim is to be compatible with tools, configurations and indexes from
     44 module-init-tools project.
     45 
     46 Compilation and installation
     47 ============================
     48 
     49 In order to compiler the source code you need following software packages:
     50 	- GCC compiler
     51 	- GNU C library
     52 
     53 Optional dependencies:
     54 	- ZLIB library
     55 	- LZMA library
     56 
     57 Typical configuration:
     58 	./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2" --prefix=/usr \
     59 			--sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib
     60 
     61 Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages.
     62 
     63 To compile and install run:
     64 	make && make install
     65 
     66 Hacking
     67 =======
     68 
     69 Run 'autogen.sh' script before configure. If you want to accept the recommended
     70 flags, you just need to run 'autogen.sh c'. Note that the recommended
     71 flags require cython be installed to compile successfully.
     72 
     73 Make sure to read the CODING-STYLE file and the other READMEs: libkmod/README
     74 and testsuite/README.
     75 
     76 Compatibility with module-init-tools
     77 ====================================
     78 
     79 kmod replaces module-init-tools, which is end-of-life. Most of its tools are
     80 rewritten on top of libkmod so it can be used as a drop in replacements.
     81 Somethings however were changed. Reasons vary from "the feature was already
     82 long deprecated on module-init-tools" to "it would be too much trouble to
     83 support it".
     84 
     85 There are several features that are being added in kmod, but we don't
     86 keep track of them here.
     87 
     88 modprobe
     89 --------
     90 
     91 * 'modprobe -l' was marked as deprecated and does not exist anymore
     92 
     93 * 'modprobe -t' is gone, together with 'modprobe -l'
     94 
     95 * modprobe doesn't parse configuration files with names not ending in
     96   '.alias' or '.conf'. modprobe used to warn about these files.
     97 
     98 * modprobe doesn't parse 'config' and 'include' commands in configuration
     99   files.
    100 
    101 * modprobe from m-i-t does not honour softdeps for install commands. E.g.:
    102   config:
    103 
    104         install bli "echo bli"
    105 	install bla "echo bla"
    106 	softdep bla pre: bli
    107 
    108   With m-i-t, the output of 'modprobe --show-depends bla' will be:
    109         install "echo bla"
    110 
    111   While with kmod:
    112         install "echo bli"
    113         install "echo bla"
    114 
    115 * kmod doesn't dump the configuration as is in the config files. Instead it
    116   dumps the configuration as it was parsed. Therefore, comments and file names
    117   are not dumped, but on the good side we know what the exact configuration
    118   kmod is using. We did this because if we only want to know the entire content
    119   of configuration files, it's enough to use find(1) in modprobe.d directories
    120 
    121 depmod
    122 ------
    123 
    124 * there's no 'depmod -m' option: legacy modules.*map files are gone
    125 
    126 lsmod
    127 -----
    128 
    129 * module-init-tools used /proc/modules to parse module info. kmod uses
    130   /sys/module/*, but there's a fallback to /proc/modules if the latter isn't
    131   available
    132 

README.md

      1 ## kmod - Linux kernel module handling
      2 
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      4 
      5 This is a ***mirror only***. Please see [README](../master/README) file for more information.
      6