From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:33:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Message-Id: <20050211213333.GA22291@suse.de> List-Id: References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:56:14PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 11, Roman Kagan wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:20:34PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > > You can override the aliases you don't like in modprobe.conf (or a file > > > I cannot, because module-init-tools aliases are not recursive (blame > > > Rusty, he says this is a feature). > > > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean. E.g. here's how I disable > > sworks_agp which kills one of my machines if loaded: > > > > % cat /etc/modprobe.conf > > install null : > > alias pci:v00001166d*sv*sd*bc06sc00i00* null > > This is not practical, drivers must be disabled by name because the > aliases will change with time. Huh? That's extremely pratical. He's saying, "never load a module for this specific type of pci device." So if the module name changes for a driver that happens to support that device, the line will still work properly. > What I meant is that this does not work: > > # alias provided by the kernel > alias pci:foo*bar foo_driver > # alias provided by the user > alias foo_driver null Hm, time to make a "blacklist" file that is separate from the alias stuff that handles this without needing recursion. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel