From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Blin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] new pcmcia IDs for hostap - ASUS WL-110 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20060512165706.GA4079@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com Return-path: Received: from ezoffice.mandriva.com ([84.14.106.134]:18436 "EHLO office.mandriva.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750729AbWEWPkF (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 May 2006 11:40:05 -0400 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060512165706.GA4079@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (Jean Tourrilhes's message of "Fri, 12 May 2006 09:57:06 -0700") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jean Tourrilhes writes: > The overall architecture of hotplug/udev module loading is > broken as it does not allow user override. I have explained in details > the problem to the concerned people, but it seems that they don't > really care. The standard answer is "blacklist the orinoco > module". Let's not even mention libusual. You can also have a local alias overriding in a /etc/modprobe.d/ file, for example: alias pcmcia:m02AAc0002f*fn*pfn*pa*pb*pc*pd* hostap_cs modprobe will use this alias only, since it doesn't look in module.alias if the alias is resolved before. This allows to override the driver for a specific card, without blacklisting a driver still usable with a whole number of cards. Regards -- Olivier Blin - Mandriva