Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 002 release

Greg KH
2005-05-10T20:14:02Z

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 07:24:47PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 10, "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru> wrote:
>
> > Why not this or something similar (e.g. I want to blacklist the xxx and
> > yyy modules)? (note, untested)

Nice, I like it.

> Because it's impossible to predict how it will interact with other
> install and alias commands.

Then we will just have to find out :)

> 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...

thanks,

greg k-h