Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759618AbXEMSjV (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 14:39:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757635AbXEMSjP (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 14:39:15 -0400 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:22847 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757564AbXEMSjP (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 14:39:15 -0400 Message-ID: <46475B4F.2020903@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:39:11 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev Organization: Telecom Service, JSC User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig , Stephen Hemminger , Dan Aloni , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load References: <20070513132517.GA14038@localdomain> <20070513092352.18cd80de@freepuppy> <20070513182035.GA10207@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070513182035.GA10207@infradead.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: id=4F9CF57E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 20 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:23:52AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: [] >> 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. modprobe blacklist is designed especially for this very case: to stop hotplug loading broken modules. ;) But yes, in order to use the blacklist, one have to fill in the list itself, for which one has to log in... /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/