• Re: Suppressing loading of a kernel module

    From Marco d'Itri@1:229/2 to Andrew Pollock on Tue Aug 17 03:10:06 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.devel
    From: [email protected]

    On Aug 16, Andrew Pollock <[email protected]> wrote:

    I've been meaning to ask, at what point did hotplug start overlapping into discover's space?
    A few months ago. Actually hotplug was always supposed to behave like
    this, but it was broken on debian systems because pciutils lacked the pcimodules program.

    I too found that #236423, whilst originally I believed to be caused by discover, later seemed to be caused by hotplug. (For all I know it may have been caused by hotplug all along).
    Anyway, #236423 is not a bug in hotplug or discover: it's not their
    fault if a driver spews the kernel log with crap after being loaded.
    I'm closing it because I remember that it's a duplicate of another bug
    opened against a kernel package (a patch was provided, but I do not know
    the current status of the bug).

    BTW, please remember to ALWAYS Cc reassigned bugs to the appropriate maintainers, because they are not otherwise notified so I did not notice
    this bug before.

    It seems to me that hotplug seems to be much more indiscriminate than discover when it comes to loading modules.
    It seems to me that our binary kernel packages contain drivers which are
    not suitable for general use. They should either not be built by default
    or blacklisted by the kernel package.

    --
    ciao, |
    Marco | [7541 pr/9WdNkiFUyg]

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