| Features: |
| ========= |
| |
| * config: configs that do not need to be matched by fnmatch() could be using a |
| vector instead of a list. This way we could search in it by calling |
| bsearch(). |
| |
| * index: drop the "open(), seek(), read()" implementation and use another one |
| with mmap(). When lookup() is called and the file is not mmaped, mmap it. |
| |
| * create test-mock library to be LD_PRELOAD'ed before running the binaries |
| so we're able to create unit tests |
| |
| * Add functions to dump configuration |
| |
| * Add functions list all modules known by modules.dep |
| |
| * provide 1:1 compatibility with module-init-tools's modprobe |
| - dump configuration |
| |
| * provide modules.archive, a cache file with all modules compressed |
| and a fast access. It's like a tar.gz, but with each entry |
| compressed as opposed to the whole tar compressed, easy to pick |
| individual entries, that is, more like .gz.tar. As zlib compression |
| does not store the uncompressed file size, this could provide |
| it. The file format should be something like: |
| MAGIC-ID |
| DIRECTORY-ENTRY-SIZE |
| DIRECTORY (hash-like format, points to file offset and size) |
| ENTRIES (each is a compressed module) |
| Helper binary to: |
| kmod-archive list |
| kmod-archive add path.ko |
| kmod-archive rm path.ko |
| kmod-archive get path.ko |
| kmod-archive exists path.ko |
| |
| Known Bugs: |
| =========== |
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| |
| Notes for future development: |
| ============================= |
| |
| * Kill support for /etc/modprobe.conf |
| |
| * Kill support for map files |
| |
| Things to be added removed in kernel (check what is really needed): |
| =================================================================== |
| |
| * list of currently loaded modules |
| |
| * module's size should be available under /sys |
| |
| * kill /proc/modules ? |
