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On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:24:54 +0200, Ralf Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It would avoid the modules being auto-loaded for whatever reason...
> > Since they're not aliases for anything in the kernel, it will only
> > help people with old configuration files, but it's better than
> > nothing!
> No it won't, as blacklisting only affects (as we found out) the
> auto-loading via hotplug, not the loading of modules with config files
> like oss-compat does it - at least, that was my interpretation of the
> results of our previous tests. But I think I'll still add it, if only
> to indicate to to the user that those modules definitely shouldn't be
> loaded when osspd is used.

Module aliases are intended to affect auto-loading via hotplug... But I'm not
sure that's relevant for any OSS-module loading configuration anyway. So
you're probably right, the only point of blacklisting would be as an
indication that the modules shouldn't be loaded!

> > Great! Unfortunately I get
> > 
> > % git clone http://www.ralfj.de/git/osspd.git Cloning into
> > 'osspd'... fatal: http://www.ralfj.de/git/osspd.git/info/refs not
> > valid: is this a git repository?
> > 
> > when I try to clone the repo.
> That's a weblink which you can open in your browser ;-) (now I finally
> know why I don't like github to use http URLs for repositories - I
> mean, the protocol being http, there's not much more I can do to
> indicate it's just a website). The git URL is
> git://ralfj.de/osspd.git

D'oh! Silly me ;-). I'll give it a shot tomorrow...

Regards,

Stephen
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