how to blacklist some hardware

[François Patte]

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Le 12/08/2011 11:09, François Patte a écrit :
> Le 12/08/2011 01:17, Ed Greshko a écrit :
>> On 08/12/2011 06:30 AM, Anthony Messina wrote:
>>> 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 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
> 
>> There is also a kernel parameter rdblacklist=
> 
>> Along with that, it may be a good idea to regenerate the initramfs with
>> dracut to make sure the module isn't loaded at the earliest possible time.

One more question: will it be necessary to regenerate the initramfs if
the kernel is updated or the update process via yum will do the job?

Thank you.

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