Re: [PATCH] allow kernel module exclusion on load

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> doesn't really help if hotplug loads a broken module before you're getting
> a login prompt.  So while this is a bit of a hack I'm all in favour of this.
> (Especially as I got hit by this issue again yesterday)

At least on SUSE the hotplug code implements this all in user space
(by reading /proc/cmdline). No need to pollute the kernel with it.
Just fix your user space.

-Andi
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