Blacklisting a module

Blacklisting a module

[Danny Budik]

Hi all,

I have a problem blacklisting a module. Whenever I plug in a proprietary 
USB device, a built-in kernel module, "usbtest", gets loaded 
automatically because my usb device has the same vendor/product ids as 
"usbtest". I am not using this driver and I want to have control of the 
usb device. So I put "usbtest" in the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file, but 
the module still gets loaded every time when I plug in my usb device. I 
have this problem on FC4 (and FC3 before). I tried on Debian Sarge and 
there was no problem - the module didn't get loaded when I blacklisted 
it. I need to use Fedora for now because of other issues so does anyone 
have any idea what the problem could be and how I can fix it?

Thanks.

Danny


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Re: Blacklisting a module

[Danny Budik]

I fixed the problem. The line needs to go into
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat instead of /etc/hotplug/blacklsit. I 
forgot to mention but I'm using kernel 2.6.16-1.2096_FC4.

Danny

Danny Budik wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem blacklisting a module. Whenever I plug in a proprietary 
> USB device, a built-in kernel module, "usbtest", gets loaded 
> automatically because my usb device has the same vendor/product ids as 
> "usbtest". I am not using this driver and I want to have control of the 
> usb device. So I put "usbtest" in the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file, but 
> the module still gets loaded every time when I plug in my usb device. I 
> have this problem on FC4 (and FC3 before). I tried on Debian Sarge and 
> there was no problem - the module didn't get loaded when I blacklisted 
> it. I need to use Fedora for now because of other issues so does anyone 
> have any idea what the problem could be and how I can fix it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Danny
> 

-- 
Danny Budik
Systems Engineer
Inductive Signature Technologies, Inc.
http://www.ist-traffic.com
(865) 673-9434


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Re: Blacklisting a module

[Bill Nottingham]

Danny Budik (dbudik@ist-traffic.com) said: 
> I fixed the problem. The line needs to go into
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat instead of /etc/hotplug/blacklsit. I 
> forgot to mention but I'm using kernel 2.6.16-1.2096_FC4.

Yes, it moved to a modprobe-based blacklist in FC5:

* Thu Jul 07 2005 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> - 0.160-1
- move blacklist to /etc/modprobe.d, require new module-init-tools

This may have needed backported to FC4 once a newer udev
got shipped.

Bill


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