I'll do a little thinking-out-loud here myself: I agree an overly-generous modalias might potentially cause this -- I'm curious and will follow up on that tonight to see what modinfo has to say on the OSS modules. If it is the case, I will email 4Front myself and ask them to consider changing that. I can't think of any reason to do it that way. Modalias is there for a good reason!
All of the OSS modules are starting off enabled (i.e. allowed) as you point out, but they do not load because of the missing hardware. So far, I am in agreement. But even given your proposed rule changes, wouldn't they still show up as "needs computer restart?" If the modalias is overly permissive, I believe they will each try to get modprobed in, and fail, and would then show up as "needs restart." Is that right? This would also have a negative impact on boot time and hotplug performance, I would think. Bad all around. Cheers! -- restricted-manager shows all unused OSS modules as "needs computer restart" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102468 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
