Re: Blacklisting of modules

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Am 02.03.2010 11:14, schrieb mb:
> Hi folks,
> 
> After initscripts' update I noticed that the modules, being blacklisted in 
> rc.conf, were loaded. I tinkered around a bit (extended rc.sysinit with 
> calls to lsmod) and found out, that udev loads most of the modules 
> (rtc-Modules are loaded before, modules for hdd-access come from the 
> init-ramdisk, cpufreq-modules are not loaded) in rc.sysinit lines 78 to 84.
> As far as I'm able to understand the code (I used grep to look for 
> occurences of MODULES) udev has no knowledge of the MODULES array, so all 
> modules are loaded. Therefore blacklisting in rc.conf would be useless.
> Switching the MOD_AUTOLOAD flag changed nothing at all for me, so it seems 
> to be useless as well.

This is not true. You didn't dig deep enough. Blacklisting in rc.conf
works just fine.

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