Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] driver core: Add common support to skip probe for un-authorized devices | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:12:52 -0700 |
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> If all you want to do is prevent someone from loading a bunch of > drivers that you have identified as unhardened, why not just use a > modprobe blacklist?
That wouldn't help for builtin drivers, we cannot control initcalls.
This LWN article has more details on the background.
https://lwn.net/Articles/865918/
-Andi
> Am I missing something? > > Alan Stern
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