Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (59 mails)

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 22 juin 2009, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:08:22PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 June 2009 12:00:46 am Greg KH wrote:
> > ...
> > > To achieve this, I'll start to change the i386/pae and x86-64/default
> > > configurations to build a whole raft of drivers into the kernel, which
> > > speeds up booting a _lot_ due to the async probing that it allows the
> > > kernel to do.
> > What if built-in drivers break on specific HW?
>
> Then we fix the problem :)
>
> > Normal /etc/modprobe.conf blacklisting won't work.
>
> I agree, but if you look at the modules we are building in, they are all
> so far "common" modules that I do not think have ever been blacklisted.

You'd be surprised. Please don't underestimate the problem Thomas is
pointing you at, it's very real. It doesn't mean we don't want to build
these drivers in, but this means that if we do, we need a way to
disable them.

If you decide to ignore this problem today, L3 and R&D will remind you
about it on a weekly basis for the next 7 years ;)

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3
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