On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Michal Marek <mma...@suse.cz> wrote: > Dne 1.7.2013 18:33, Jonathan Masters napsal(a): >> One caveat. Sometimes we have manufactured parameters intentionally >> to cause a module to fail. We should standardize that piece. > > You have: > > blacklist foo > > to prevent udev from loading a module and > > install foo /bin/true > > to prevent modprobe from loading the module at all. What is the > motivation for inventing a third way, through adding invalid parameters? >
FWIW, I've occasionally booted with modulename.garbage=1 to prevent modulename from loading at boot. It may be worth adding a more intentional way to do that. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
