On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 21:44 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

> According to manual page for modprobe.conf(5), only canned aliases taken 
> from kernel modules are blacklisted:
> 
>     Modules can contain their own aliases: usually these are aliases
>     describing the devices they support, such as "pci:123...". These
>     "internal" aliases can be overridden by normal "alias" keywords,
>     but there are cases where two or more modules both  support  the
>     same  devices,  or a module invalidly claims to support a device
>     that it does not: the blacklist keyword indicates  that  all  of
>     that particular module's internal aliases are to be ignored.
> 
> But as written now, modprobe applies blacklist to all modules, both read 
> from configuration files as well as from modules.alias.

Ah, I see what you're saying. Can you tell me how this is affecting you?
I will review your patch in any case.

Jon.


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