Bug 106260

Summary: modprobe.conf.5: blacklist is missing
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Christian Zoz <zoz>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Christian Zoz <zoz>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: fix for the sgml bug
add the warning message for blacklist hits
For completeness the spec.diff

Description Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 19:02:01 UTC 
modprobe knows the keyword 'blacklist' in modprobe.conf. But it is missing in
current manpage. The sgml files in source package are up to date, but are not
converted to manpage, due to a sgml bug. I attach a fix for that.

Further if there is a blacklist entry for a module, then modprobe reports:
   FATAL: module <modalias> not found
But that is not true. It did found the right alias line and a module, but thte
module is blacklisted. Therfore i attach another patch, that writes an additional
   WARNING: module <module> is blacklisted
whenever an blacklist entry hits.

So far the bug. Please fix that for SL 10.0, because this are non intrusive changes.

Now the enhancment:

With that changes we could get rid of /etc/hotplug/blacklist and add a
/etc/modprobe.blacklist. Or add it to modprobe.conf. Or modprobe.d/blacklist.
BTW: Our current blacklist has about 200 entries.
Comment 1 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 19:03:07 UTC 
Created attachment 47018 [details]
fix for the sgml bug
Comment 2 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 19:03:54 UTC 
Created attachment 47019 [details]
add the warning message for blacklist hits
Comment 3 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 19:05:17 UTC 
Created attachment 47020 [details]
For completeness the spec.diff
Comment 4 Christian Zoz 2005-08-26 18:22:22 UTC 
Will you fix that?
Comment 5 Marian Jancar 2005-08-27 09:02:41 UTC 
I can look at that next week.

In general feel free to do any reasonable changes, just drop a note if it would
be something invasive.
Comment 6 Christian Zoz 2005-08-29 07:25:30 UTC 
I'll add the patches.
Comment 7 Christian Zoz 2005-08-29 07:39:34 UTC 
submitted to STABLE