On (28/01/13 13:09), [email protected] wrote:
> > _______________________________________
> > From: Darren Hart [[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 12:52 PM
> > To: Brown, Michael E
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] udev blacklist ineffective
> > 
> > On 01/28/2013 08:36 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > I have two embedded systems that share some devices over an i2c bus. Only 
> > > one system may load the device driver at a time, and loading the device 
> > > driver is already well-controlled by the HA subsystem.
> > >
> > > Our new yocto build with udev enabled is auto-loading these device 
> > > drivers with catastrophic results. We must absolutely prohibit such 
> > > automatic behaviour for our list of devices. I have tried:
> > >
> > > $ cat etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
> > > blacklist seepmtd
> > > ... cut ...
> > >
> > > And this does *NOT* work. I have tried renaming blacklist.conf to
> > > modprobe.conf as well as creating modprobe.conf with these blacklist
> > > entries.
> > >
> > > This is a huge blocking issue and I have been unable to figure out a
> > > workaround for it. I would appreciate any suggestions.
> > 
> > 
> > OK, so... this needs to be addressed.
> > 
> > However, can you just not build/install the drivers for the system that
> > shouldn't be accessing them? Or do you require a more general image?
> 
> Both systems have to access these devices. They just cannot load the drivers 
> simultaneously. The driver load is under control of the HA process that 
> ensures that only one system at a time accesses the devices, and takes care 
> of fencing, etc.
> 
> We have a custom FPGA that can switch access to the devices between two 
> systems, loading drivers from both systems twiddles bits that ought not to be 
> twiddled and catastrophically crashes one or both systems.
>  
> > You will need to provide details about the version of oe-core you are
> > using, kmod or modutils, and any relevant DISTRO configurations you have
> > made, which bit of software do you expect to be honoring the blacklist, etc.
> 
> Yocto release 1.3, danny branch + meta-oe/meta-systemd for system startup
> udev_v195-r10
> libkmod2_9-r0.0
> 
> Distro is poky + systemd
> 
> What is happening is that, on boot, the udev Coldplug startup step is loading 
> drivers that must not be loaded based on i2c discovery.

yes udev is exactly for that. You are up for writing some udev rules
here may be something etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and add
OPTIONS=="ignore_device" if condition (that you will define based on
device you want to ignore) is met.

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