[ANNOUNCE] kmod 29

[Lucas De Marchi]

kmod 29 is out:

         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod-29.tar.xz
         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod-29.tar.sign

- Improvements
        - Add support to use /usr/local as a place for configuration files. This makes it easier
          to install locally without overriding distro files.

- Bug fixes
        - Fix `modinfo -F` when module is builtin: when we asked by a specific field from modinfo,
          it was not working correctly if the module was builtin

        - Documentation fixes on precedence order of /etc and /run: the correct order is
          /etc/modprobe.d, /run/modprobe.d, /lib/modprobe.d

        - Fix the priority order that we use for searching configuration files. The
          correct one is /etc, /run, /usr/local/lib, /lib, for both modprobe.d
          and depmo.d

        - Fix kernel command line parsing when there are quotes present. Grub
          mangles the command line and changes it from 'module.option="val with
          spaces"' to '"module.option=val with spaces"'. Although this is weird
          behavior and grub could have been fixed, the kernel understands it
          correctly for builtin modules. So change libkmod to also parse it
          correctly. This also brings another hidden behavior from the kernel:
          newline in the kernel command line is also allowed and can be used to
          separate options.

        - Fix a memory leak, overflow and double free on error path

        - Fix documentation for return value from kmod_module_get_info(): we
          return the number of entries we added to the list

        - Fix output of modules.builtin.alias.bin index: we were writing an empty file due to
          the misuse of kmod_module_get_info()

- Infra/internal
        - Retire integration with semaphoreci

        - Declare the github mirror also as an official upstream source: now besides accepting
          patches via mailing list, PRs on github are also acceptable

        - Misc improvements to testsuite, so we can use it reliably regardless
          of the configuration used: now tests will skip if we don't have the
          build dependencies)


Shortlog is below:

Lucas De Marchi (17):
      README: remove leftover from semaphoreci
      libkmod: Fix documentation on config precedence order
      depmod: fix precedence order
      Support /usr/local for configuration files
      README: make github mirror official
      testsuite: compress modules if feature is enabled
      testsuite: also test xz compression
      libkmod-config: revamp kcmdline parsing into a state machine
      libkmod-config: re-quote option from kernel cmdline
      testsuite: allow to re-use single function for tests
      test-modprobe: share single function for kcmdline tests
      libkmod-config: more chars allowed as space
      gitignore: ignore .mbx and .cover for b4 integration
      Fix return value doc for kmod_module_get_info()
      depmod: fix modules.builtin.alias.bin output
      testsuite: update gitignore
      kmod 29

Seung-Woo Kim (3):
      libkmod-config: fix a memory leak when kmod_list_append() fails
      libkmod: fix an overflow with wrong modules.builtin.modinfo
      libkmod: fix possible double free with wrong modules.builtin.modinfo

Marius Bakke (2):
      testsuite: Add facility to skip tests.
      testsuite: Automatically skip tests that fail when sysconfdir != /etc.

Dave Reisner (1):
      populate-modules: Use more bash, more quotes

Marco d'Itri (1):
      Fix "modinfo -F always shows name for built-ins"


Thank you all for the contributions.


Lucas De Marchi