Re: [RFC PATCH] Allow optional module parameters

Michal Marek
2013-07-03T21:23:40Z

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