From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How NOT to have already compiled modules (auto)load?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:57:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040701045725.GC2150@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40E37954.3080201@thinrope.net>
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:39:16AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> Sorry for the fuzzy subject, I couldn't formulate it better.
>
> I was trying to find info on that on Google, man and Documentation/*, but
> to no avail...
>
> I have a laptop with USB CD-ROM that is very rarely attached/used.
> I have sr_mod, etc. compiled as modules.
> On every boot it gets autoloaded, despite the fact that CD-ROM is not
> connected (no, I don't have another).
>
> My question is is there any good(tm) way to prevent this?
> One way I could think is to rename the module, but that is a bit bad.
> Is there a way to blacklist some modules?
/etc/hotplug/blacklist will prevent the hotplug scripts from loading the
module automatically.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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2004-07-01 2:39 How NOT to have already compiled modules (auto)load? Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2004-07-01 4:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
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