Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-17 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane, JXVS
> -Original Message- > From: James Pearson [mailto:jame...@moving-picture.com] > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2017 5:21 AM > To: CentOS mailing list; Frank Thommen > Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd) > > Frank Thommen wrote: > > Hi,

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-17 Thread James Pearson
Frank Thommen wrote: > ** WARNING: This mail is from an external source ** > > > Hi, > > how can a specific device driver in CentOS 7 be blacklisted, so that it > doesn't load at boot time?  We have Infiniband adapters which are not > completely supported by CentOS and we want to silence the

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/16/2017 08:59 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: Thanks for the hint.  However as this should only be a temporary measure and needs to be done on ca. 100 hosts I'm not sure if we want to go through the hassles.  Deploying a textfile is no problem, but creating new initrds for differing

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-16 Thread Frank Thommen
On 11/15/2017 07:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/15/2017 10:35 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: I tried with the files /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and with entries blacklist mlx5_core blacklist mlx5_ib The "blacklist" entries prevent a module being loaded by

Re: [CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/15/2017 10:35 AM, Frank Thommen wrote: I tried with the files   /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist   /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and with entries   blacklist mlx5_core   blacklist mlx5_ib The "blacklist" entries prevent a module being loaded by its alias (typically a PCI ID), but not from

[CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

2017-11-15 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, how can a specific device driver in CentOS 7 be blacklisted, so that it doesn't load at boot time? We have Infiniband adapters which are not completely supported by CentOS and we want to silence the error messages for the time being. I tried with the files /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist