Bug 175002

Summary: RHEL4 U3 Alpha is loading PCIEHP module by default
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Ed Ciechanowski <ed.ciechanowski>
Component: kernelAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Ed Ciechanowski 2005-12-05 18:13:44 UTC
Description of problem:
When booting the alpha build of RHEL4 Update 3, the pciehp driver is being 
loaded by default.  Some systems cannot use this driver and there for 
shouldn't be loaded.  Also, this is filling up the dmesg file with messages 
about the load failure.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL4 Update 3 Alpha

How reproducible:
Boot OS and check the dmeg log.

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Actual results:
the pciehp driver is being loaded by default

Expected results:
shouldn't be loaded

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Comment 1 Ed Ciechanowski 2005-12-05 18:21:54 UTC
*** Bug 175004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-12-05 21:09:52 UTC
If the PCI ids exported by the module match devices on the system, it will be
loaded.

It can be blacklisted by adding the module to /etc/hotplug/blacklist, if the
local admin wants to do that.