Re: [ANNOUNCE] updated hotplug++ and livecd/init

Hi all,

Just for completeness:
modprobe from module-init-tools does support blacklisting. I used this feature
as long as hotplug++ did not support blacklisting.

modprobe from the old modutils package does not support blacklisting, and i 
believe that some other modpobe implementations from busybox and similiar 
packages also don't support blacklisting.

regards,
Gerhard

Am Saturday, 24. February 2007 schrieb Rene Rebe:
> Hi all,
>
> despite beeing in production use for way over a year now, Mikael found a
> not so nice bug in the livecd/init where, if no block device is attached to
> the system. the shell code would accidently iterate over all device nodes
> and disktype stalls on the first blocking (character) device.
>
> On the way to tracking this down hotplug++ received some more
> segmentaion fault protection.
>
> If you wonder why we still use hotplug++ in the times of u/dev, the answer
> is simple: calling modprobe directly form u/dev rules (yes we tried this)
> does not feature a blacklist, and we need one (e.g. for evbug and the
> various instable FB drivers).
>
> Have fun and enjoy,
>   René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH

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