Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932097AbXEOMKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 08:10:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758348AbXEOMKZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 08:10:25 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46621 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757920AbXEOMKZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 08:10:25 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: 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> From: Andi Kleen Date: 15 May 2007 15:07:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070513182035.GA10207@infradead.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 11 Christoph Hellwig writes: > > 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) At least on SUSE the hotplug code implements this all in user space (by reading /proc/cmdline). No need to pollute the kernel with it. Just fix your user space. -Andi - 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/