Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load

[Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:23:11AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2007-05-13 19:20:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:23:52AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:25:17 +0300
> > > Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Kernel developers might find it useful for quickly getting out from some 
> > > > rough debugging scenarios.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > There is already the modprobe blacklist ability in user space.
> > 
> > doesn't really help if hotplug loads a broken module before you're getting
> > a login prompt.  So while this is a bit of a hack I'm all in favour of this.
> > (Especially as I got hit by this issue again yesterday)
> 
> It is quite a bick hack. Unknown kernel parameters are passed to init,
> can we just make modprobe parse that?

We can, and then we also have to patch busybox's own fork of modprobe
and every other code out there that does the same thing (not so much, 
but still).

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Dan Aloni
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