From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:52:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release Message-Id: <20050510205239.GA3634@suse.de> List-Id: References: <20050506212227.GA24066@kroah.com> <1115611034.14447.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050509232103.GA24238@suse.de> <1115717357.10222.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050510094339.GC6346@wonderland.linux.it> <4280AFF4.6080108@ums.usu.ru> <20050510172447.GA11263@wonderland.linux.it> <20050510201355.GB3226@suse.de> <20050510203156.GA14979@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20050510203156.GA14979@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Rusty Russell , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 10, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > Why not this or something similar (e.g. I want to blacklist the xxx and > > > > yyy modules)? (note, untested) > > Nice, I like it. > But it does not work. Why not? > > > Because it's impossible to predict how it will interact with other > > > install and alias commands. > > Then we will just have to find out :) > It should be clear that it will interact badly with another install > commands, with one of them being ignored. This is not acceptable. Why? Will they not all just be checked in order? > > > A less fundamental but still major problem is that this would be a > > > different API, and both users and packages have been aware of > > > /etc/hotplug/blacklist* for a long time now. > > And as /etc/hotplug/* is going away for hotplug-ng, I don't think this > > is going to be an issue. Also, the blacklisting stuff should not be > > that prevelant anymore... > It's a feature which I know my users and other maintainers need > (for duplicated drivers, OSS drivers, watchdog drivers, usb{mouse,kbd} > and so on) so it's a prerequisite for the successful packaging of > hotplug-ng. Ok, then, care to make a patch to module-init-tools to provide this functionality? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ids93&alloc_id281&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