Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Wed 2007-05-16 19:51:07, Dan Aloni wrote:
> 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).

Too lazy to fix userspace so lets break kernel?

No, thanks.
							Pavel
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