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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Jonathan Masters <jcm@redhat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	"linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:23:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D49655.8030206@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWOUE=2fX1k+igfNizUfxRaZCc9NDgMzy7SM6fAjZMZuA@mail.gmail.com>

Dne 3.7.2013 23:17, Andy Lutomirski napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Dne 1.7.2013 18:33, Jonathan Masters napsal(a):
>>> One caveat. Sometimes we have manufactured parameters intentionally
>>> to cause a module to fail. We should standardize that piece.
>>
>> You have:
>>
>>   blacklist foo
>>
>> to prevent udev from loading a module and
>>
>>   install foo /bin/true
>>
>> to prevent modprobe from loading the module at all. What is the
>> motivation for inventing a third way, through adding invalid parameters?
>>
> 
> FWIW, I've occasionally booted with modulename.garbage=1 to prevent
> modulename from loading at boot.  It may be worth adding a more
> intentional way to do that.

Hm, right, there seems to be no clean way to achieve this via a
commandline argument. Maybe define a magic module option to tell the
module loader not to load a module?

Thanks,
Michal


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-03 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <b6b1676fd5bcd6b0ef47b0e0a1c26b1c05684135.1363291511.git.luto@amacapital.net>
     [not found] ` <87ehfhtftn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
     [not found]   ` <CALCETrU+rehQzy4vVg589CGi561X_s73Xgsfp43pYZOoKvNDXQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-18  2:24     ` [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters Rusty Russell
2013-03-18 17:42       ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-19  2:32         ` Rusty Russell
2013-03-19 19:40           ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-20  2:31             ` Rusty Russell
2013-03-20  0:26           ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-03-20  0:32             ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-20  0:36               ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-20  3:45             ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-01  6:50               ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-01 16:33                 ` Jonathan Masters
2013-07-03  0:28                   ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-03 21:03                   ` Michal Marek
2013-07-03 21:17                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-07-03 21:23                       ` Michal Marek [this message]
2013-07-03 21:30                         ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-07-03 21:31                         ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-07-03 21:36                           ` Andy Lutomirski

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