Re: How NOT to have already compiled modules (auto)load?

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:39:16AM +0900, Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> Sorry for the fuzzy subject, I couldn't formulate it better.
> 
> I was trying to find info on that on Google, man and Documentation/*, but 
> to no avail...
> 
> I have a laptop with USB CD-ROM that is very rarely attached/used.
> I have sr_mod, etc. compiled as modules.
> On every boot it gets autoloaded, despite the fact that CD-ROM is not 
> connected (no, I don't have another).
> 
> My question is is there any good(tm) way to prevent this?
> One way I could think is to rename the module, but that is a bit bad.
> Is there a way to blacklist some modules?

/etc/hotplug/blacklist will prevent the hotplug scripts from loading the
module automatically.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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