Re: How to prevent modules from being loaded

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:34:57PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > a while ago, I asked the kernel maintainer how to prevent modules 
> > > from being loaded since now we have hotplug etc. that loads 
> > > everything that sticks to the kernel. 
> >
> > Using hotplug or discover* blacklists?
> 
> I'm using hotplug. Adding snd or snd_intel8x0 to /etc/hotplug/blacklist
> or /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/local doesn't help here. All the snd modules
> are loaded after bootup as before. 

Like said, there are three things involved here : discover*, hotplug and the
magic also module loading.

You have to do blacklisting in all of them.

Friendly,

Sven Luther