From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Hotplug blacklist and video devices
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:08:22 -0500
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Jon Smirl (jonsmirl@gmail.com) said: 
> Why are all of the framebuffer drivers on the hotplug blacklist?

Well, that probably depends on your distribution. :)

Under Fedora (and RHEL), they're there because we generally
don't want to load them unless the user asked for them.

Bill