Aaron Griffin wrote:
If I modprobe blah, it doesn't know which to do. So, blacklisting
"bar" tells modprobe ONLY to ignore the aliases exposed by bar. I can
still modprobe bar by a non-alias name, and I can still load bar as a
dependent module.
Well, from udev perspective, modprobe by nonalias name is not an issue (or
is it ?).
About module dependency though - good point, I missed that :(
As for your #3 idea, you can store that blacklist file in i.e.
/dev/.udev/blacklist, which you can remove later, after udev processing.
Also, rc.sysinit script you could add extra trigger pass for failed events, i.e.
if [ -d /dev/.udev/failed ]; then
udevadm trigger --retry-failed
udevadm settle
fi
(although conditional is not really necessary)
I often have some failed ones, which can be easily retriggered this way.
Some other distros do that in their initscripts as well.
Let's solve one problem at a time here. Dan brought up the rules issue
months ago. As it stands it hurts no one and is not the issues I am
attempting to solve.
fair enough :)
Cheers
(hope I helped tiny bit ;)
