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authorPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>2016-07-21 09:07:56 +0300
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2016-08-04 03:46:53 +0300
commitbe7de5f91fdc3a63ee01910c43f20db213445ce4 (patch)
treebce5a3b202a589e962cffa2f8dec3d58fbbddbc7 /Documentation
parent9502514f2808d29f6f2afa1c410e7808898dede1 (diff)
downloadlinux-be7de5f91fdc3a63ee01910c43f20db213445ce4.tar.xz
modules: Add kernel parameter to blacklist modules
Blacklisting a module in linux has long been a problem. The current procedure is to use rd.blacklist=module_name, however, that doesn't cover the case after the initramfs and before a boot prompt (where one is supposed to use /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to blacklist runtime loading). Using rd.shell to get an early prompt is hit-or-miss, and doesn't cover all situations AFAICT. This patch adds this functionality of permanently blacklisting a module by its name via the kernel parameter module_blacklist=module_name. [v2]: Rusty, use core_param() instead of __setup() which simplifies things. [v3]: Rusty, undo wreckage from strsep() [v4]: Rusty, simpler version of blacklisted() Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -2301,6 +2301,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
is always true, so this option does nothing.
+ module_blacklist= [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
+ modules. Useful for debugging problem modules.
+
mousedev.tap_time=
[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered