linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load

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Message-ID: <p73iraudylv.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	15 May 2007 15:07:24 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> 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
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