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author | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2013-07-17 02:26:47 -0300 |
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committer | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> | 2013-07-17 02:31:27 -0300 |
commit | cd923111c6c5352d7fa1b9a73fde25008b47c7f5 (patch) | |
tree | bc4748256d61fddec4c4a92187e9c9b67f4248a1 /TODO | |
parent | 232bf4d86303d86aff0e29c619f0543b29479c8c (diff) | |
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README: Move items from TODO
Put the differences between kmod and module-init-tools in the README
file so it's more visible.
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@@ -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 |