Project Summary
Library and programs to manage Linux Kernel Modules.
This project consists of a library (libkmod) that does the same work as traditional module-init-tools (m-i-t) but is easily usable by other programs that may need to check or load kernel modules, such as udev, systemd, iptables, ...
The provided programs try to mimic m-i-t equivalents 1-to-1 and could be used as drop-in replacements in most cases.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 5 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2011
ending with its most recent commit about 2 months ago
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later
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