how to blacklist some hardware

[Anthony Messina]

On 08/11/2011 02:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:55:51 +0200
> François Patte wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to tell udev to ignore this hardware and skip anything
>> regarding it.
> 
> I have often wondered this as well. I wish there were some way
> to specify PCI device IDs to be skipped on the kernel command
> line so the kernel would just leave that device out of the
> list at the earliest enumeration of devices and no one else
> would ever even know it was there.

I do this for my Digium TDM400P card for Asterisk:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.netjet.conf

Which contains:
# Blacklist the netjet driver for the 2.6.32 kernel as it prevents the
# wctdm (TDM400P) driver from loading.
blacklist netjet

You would do:
blacklist cx18

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