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

Hi,

On Saturday 24 February 2007 04:00:33 Blacky Gray wrote:

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

Oh, intereseting - I did not notice, thanks for pointing this out.

> 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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