Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release

Greg KH
2005-05-10T20:53:40Z

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 10, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> 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