From: newsspam@weilbacher.org   
      
   On 14.11.2007 02:45, David W Noon wrote:   
      
   > On Tuesday 13 Nov 2007 18:23 in article   
   > <4739EB8E.3050906@gaston.Weilbacher.org> of alt.os.linux.gentoo, Peter   
   > Weilbacher(newsspam@weilbacher.org) wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >> OK, this time there was a fsck running so I had more time to look at   
   >> the output. It actually _is_ udev loading the drivers. I see   
   >>   
   >>    Letting udev process events...   
   >>       joydev   
   >>       i2c_i801   
   >>       fglrx   
   >>       yenta_socket   
   >>       ipw2200   
   >   
   > That will be udev's premount module processing.   
   >   
   >> I don't know where this could be coming from. I searched all of /etc/   
   >> and the only thing where these drivers are listed are   
   >> /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-* /etc/make.conf (fglrx only!) and   
   >> /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap (joydev only!). Nothing really about yenta or   
   >> ipw2200 or i2c_i801?!   
   >   
   > AFAIAA, udev scans /lib/modules/${KV}/ for all *.ko files, eliminates   
   > those that are either in the autoload list, the ALSA list, the   
   > blacklist or any other more specific list of drivers, and attempts   
   > loading the remainder.   
   >   
   > What does the firmware_class driver do? Can you add it to the blacklist   
   > as well?   
      
   I can only guess that it loads the firmware for the ipw2200 module, it's   
   in its list in modules.dep. That firmware in turn probably comes from the   
   ipw2200-firmware-3.0 package.   
      
   $ tail -6 /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist   
      
   blacklist ipw2200   
   blacklist ieee80211   
   blacklist ieee80211_crypt   
   blacklist firmware_class   
      
   -)   
      
   I now also added the funny yenta_socket and its dependencies to the   
   end of the blacklist, in case it was somehow related to the WLAN driver.   
   Then ran update-modules again, rebootet, noted that it didn't have any   
   effect.   
      
      Peter.   
      
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