grey- and blacklisting drivers [Was: Re: Using the "best available" driver]

[Bill Nottingham]

Dominik Brodowski (linux at dominikbrodowski.net) said: 
> Hi,
> 
> For various reasons, it might be necessary to switch to a better driver for
> a device -- Jean can tell of many examples, if needed. Currently, that's
> possible using modprobe's blacklisting capability (in
> module-init-tools-3.2.1, at least) -- but that's for monolithic kernels
> only.

Why is the blacklisting for monolithic kernels only?

Bill