Bug#591320: /etc/modprobe.d/initramfs.conf is lost

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:14:43PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
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> > This is the intended behaviour.
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> Is this documented somewhere?
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> This restriction would make the blacklist feature pretty useless,
> doesn't it? As soon as udev is started in single user mode (using
> /etc/modprobe.d found on root filesystem) all the blacklisted
> modules are no longer suppressed.
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> In my case I get a "bad" acpi module crashing the system before
> single user mode is completely setup. What would you suggest?
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> Of course I understand that this would be difficult to implement,
> since the root filesystem becomes writable very late in the boot
> procedure.

I'd suggest to have m-i-t parse the blacklist bootparam.
the thing is this one is initramfs-tools specific dracut prefix rd to it
marking it as a non linux-2.6 param. We didn't have that discussion yet.