On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:37, Jon Masters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 21:44 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > >> According to manual page for modprobe.conf(5), only canned aliases taken >> from kernel modules are blacklisted: >> >> Modules can contain their own aliases: usually these are aliases >> describing the devices they support, such as "pci:123...". These >> "internal" aliases can be overridden by normal "alias" keywords, >> but there are cases where two or more modules both support the >> same devices, or a module invalidly claims to support a device >> that it does not: the blacklist keyword indicates that all of >> that particular module's internal aliases are to be ignored. >> >> But as written now, modprobe applies blacklist to all modules, both read >> from configuration files as well as from modules.alias. > > Ah, I see what you're saying. Can you tell me how this is affecting you? > I will review your patch in any case.
We need blacklist entries applied to configured aliases. There should be no difference where an alias is coming from. Blacklist entries must always win, regardless of the source of the alias. Please change only the documentation. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
