Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762863AbXEPTdl (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 15:33:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758383AbXEPTde (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 15:33:34 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4813 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754561AbXEPTde (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 15:33:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:33:21 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Dan Aloni Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Stephen Hemminger , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load Message-ID: <20070516193321.GA5156@ucw.cz> References: <20070513132517.GA14038@localdomain> <20070513092352.18cd80de@freepuppy> <20070513182035.GA10207@infradead.org> <20070515082311.GA6816@ucw.cz> <20070516165107.GA13190@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070516165107.GA13190@localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1588 Lines: 38 On Wed 2007-05-16 19:51:07, Dan Aloni wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:23:11AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Sun 2007-05-13 19:20:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:23:52AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:25:17 +0300 > > > > Dan Aloni wrote: > > > > > > > > > Kernel developers might find it useful for quickly getting out from some > > > > > rough debugging scenarios. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. 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) > > > > It is quite a bick hack. Unknown kernel parameters are passed to init, > > can we just make modprobe parse that? > > We can, and then we also have to patch busybox's own fork of modprobe > and every other code out there that does the same thing (not so much, > but still). Too lazy to fix userspace so lets break kernel? No, thanks. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/