Bug 241595

Summary:	/etc/modprobe.d contains blacklist and blacklist-compat files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Denise Dumas <ddumas>
Component:	module-init-tools	Assignee:	Jon Masters <jcm>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	harald, karsten, notting, pknirsch
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Description Florian La Roche 2007-05-28 15:30:55 UTC

Description of problem:

module-init-tools and hwdata packages contain the files
blacklist and blacklist-compat in /etc/modprobe.d/.

Difference in these files seems to be only in one also
blacklisting matrxfb_base.

Can one of these files be removed and the data on be maintained
in one package?

regards,

Florian La Roche




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Comment 1 Jon Masters 2007-05-29 16:34:27 UTC

I wonder if this belongs in the hwdata package. Shall I kill it from m-i-t?

Jon.

Comment 2 Karsten Hopp 2007-05-29 16:50:42 UTC

adding Harald to CC: 
Harald: can you remember why you have added blacklist-compat to module-init-tools ??

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2007-05-29 17:13:36 UTC

was it me? only remember to have added various framebuffer modules..

Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2007-05-29 17:16:04 UTC

yes, framebuffer modules, which were autoloaded by udev have been added by me.

Comment 5 Florian La Roche 2007-05-29 20:53:05 UTC

If it needs editing more often, then hwdata is anyway changed in most
update releases and might make more sense.

For /etc/modprobe.d/ it would also be good if only files with a certain
ending would be used like *.conf as then backup files would not
accidentially be read in etc.

greetings,

Florian La Roche

Comment 6 Harald Hoyer 2007-05-31 16:02:37 UTC

blacklist-compat can be removed, if the modules in it are mentioned in another
place. framebuffer modules must _not_ be loaded automatically by udev.

Comment 7 Karsten Hopp 2007-06-25 10:24:38 UTC

Harald: I've added 'blacklist matrxfb_base' to hwdata's blacklist (Rawhide).
JCM: Please remove the file blacklist-compat from module-init-tools as it is
obsolete now.

comment #5 still needs to be solved.
At least hwdata would require some minor changes to use blacklist.conf instead
of 'blacklist'. Maybe it would suffice to exclude files ending with '~' from
being read ? Atm modprobe reads every file in that directory without exception.

Comment 8 Florian La Roche 2007-06-25 10:26:35 UTC

I've opened up another bz for comment #5. Seems also the kernel now starts
shipping blacklist files, so the number of dependencies is growing. ;-(

regards,

Florian La Roche

Comment 9 Harald Hoyer 2007-06-27 08:39:07 UTC

Karsten, I do not own module-init-tools anymore.

Comment 10 Jon Masters 2007-08-20 07:17:10 UTC

Ok. I will remove the obsolete file.

Jon.