Bug#334104: RFC: workaround for dmfe/tulip module problem

[Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>]

Hi Jurij,

Did you get around to building the mini-iso image? I'm happy to test
when you have it ready.

Regards

Richard

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 15:48 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:58:18PM +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> You are right that my patch will not help in any way when you are just 
> booting an already installed system. And that's fine, because it's not 
> a problem it is trying to solve. When you already have a working 
> system, you can simply prevent any driver from being loaded by doing 
> something like
> 
> # echo 'blacklist dmfe' > /etc/modprobe.d/dmfe-blacklist
> 
> This will prevent udev from loading the driver automatically.
> 
> What I want to achieve with the patch is the ability to disable the 
> module at the installation time. And there the situation is different, 
> because installer has its own independent logic to pass parameters 
> like dmfe.disable=1 to the modules (at least that's what it says in 
> the manual :-). I'll try to build a mini-iso installation image with 
> the updated modules, which you could test.
> 
> Best regards,
-- 
Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>