Re: blacklist.conf renamed

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Running Sid. I just notices that /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf is
> > renamed to blacklist.conf.dpkg-bak.
> > The date says:
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  658 Nov 14 06:01 blacklist.conf.dpkg-bak
> >
> > On that date I only installed lsof.
> > Any insights?
> > I copied the file to blacklist.conf again.
>
> Look at /usr/share/doc/udev/changelog.Debian.gz where it says:
>
>   * Removed /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf because all the drivers are
>     not built on Debian kernels.
>
> The change was intentional.  But I do not know the rationale.  You
> could contact the maintainer and ask.

Good show! Yup, udev changed but I did not check the changelog.
One of the things I blacklist is the k10temp module that messes up my 
sensor display, how I noticed that blacklist.conf was gone.
Thanks.

Hugo