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Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:32:31 +0400
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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To: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load
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Dan Aloni wrote:
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> Yes, I guess a shell script can always look at /proc/cmdline with
> relatively minimal complexity.
> 
> Anyway, it all boils down to whether there's a developer demand 
> for a userspace-independent way of blacklisting modules. Let's see 
> if more people post their opinion so we can determine.

The real problem here - again IMHO - is the complete lack of more-or-less
standard boot sequence.  Every distro invents their own intramfs with
unique recognized command-line arguments.

And kinit/klibc doesn't really help here, because it's too low-level.

/mjt

P.S.  I wonder why certain emails are duplicated on LKML.  An example
is my previous email in this thread - I received two copies of it
from linux-kernel-owner@vger.
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