Bug 201653

Summary:	can't blacklist module only for udev with modules-init-tools-3.4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andy Wang <dopey>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Andy Wang 2007-12-08 06:06:49 UTC

In the past, hotplug had a blacklist to prevent hotplug managing modules.  This went away with udev which makes use of modules-init-tools to prevent autoloading of modules.

With the bug fix for #192201 module-init-tools-3.4 now makes the blacklisting behavior even more complex.
1) i don't want udev to load my alsa drivers so i blacklist my sound card module
2) alsa drivers are loaded via snd-card-X alias in alsasound script
3) new blacklisting behavior with module-init-tools-3.4 now blacklists ALL aliases
4) result is alsasound is unable to load snd-card-X because the alias is blacklisted.

This seems less than ideal.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-08 08:53:54 UTC

Don't see what's so complex about the idea that blacklist is a blacklist. If you dislike this, then talk to udev upstream to provide something better, load the modules manually or don't blacklist them. A blacklist that's ignoring the aliases of modules is an inconsistent behaviour that doesn't make any sense and defeats the whole purpose of the blacklist.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192201 ***