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Message-ID: <20070516193321.GA5156@ucw.cz>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:33:21 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load
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 <da-x@...atomic.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Kernel developers might find it useful for quickly getting out from some
> > > > > rough debugging scenarios.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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
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