Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] driver core: Add common support to skip probe for un-authorized devices

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If all you want to do is prevent someone from loading a bunch of
drivers that you have identified as unhardened, why not just use a
modprobe blacklist?

That wouldn't help for builtin drivers, we cannot control initcalls.

This LWN article has more details on the background.

https://lwn.net/Articles/865918/

-Andi


Am I missing something?

Alan Stern



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