[Bug 484807] Re: module blacklisting not respected

[oger000]

Soren Hansen schrieb:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 02:59:35PM -0000, oger000 wrote:
>> ** Attachment added: "Use --use-blacklist paramter when loading the kvm modules"
>>    http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35825330/qemu-kvm.oebatch01
> 
> I think it will seem confusing that the init script says "Loading kvm
> module [OK]", yet the module isn't loaded. I don't know if modprobe
> offers a way to check whether a module /would/ be loaded by "modprobe
> -b". 

Not direct, but by checking the output of modprobe -v for the sting
"insmod".

> If it does, we can check earlier and simply not echo anything at
> all.


I modified the patch accordingly.

The patch works for me, for others there has to be the decision: If the weakness 
of depending on the output of modprobe is too strong, you can close this bug 
withou applying the patch. If you think the check stable enough please apply.


gerhard

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module blacklisting not respected
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