Preventing loading of modules

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:32 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:54:20AM +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> >And if that didn't work (maybe because they are not loaded by hotplug?),
> 
> What else besides hotplug and discover loads modules?
The Kernel itself!  Sometimes when a certain service is requested, the
Kernel try to load the module(s) associated with that kind of
service(s).  As an example (there is more of course!): network protocols
(when configure a network interface), file-systems (when mounting the
file system), and encryption (when asked specifically for some kind of
encryption by an application or indirectly as the situation when
mounting encrypted file-systems).

But you're correct, as in this situation it's most likely either
"hotplug" or "discover" that loads those two modules.

Thanks.
Ziyad.