Using the "best available" driver

[Jar]

Dominik Brodowski wrote:

  >>That is enough to me, just need one simple place to blacklist a module
>>(instead of deleting it, this is especially important for pcmcia cards 
>>when the support for old cardmgr is removed.
> 
> ... which won't happen before 2.6.16 is out, at least ...
> 
>>I have pure orinoco cards 
>>and prism2 cards in daily use) and I can live with this 
>>many-drivers-to-one-hw thing. I hope Redhat would update that package soon.

But in other mail, you say:

"...but that's for monolithic kernels only"

But distro kernels are modular, does this mean that we have not 
blacklisting feature after all?

>>Maybe things are changing too rapidly and the Linux Distributions can't 
>>follow at same speed. /etc/hotplug/blacklist was working with 2.6.12 but 
>>not with 2.6.14 in FC4.
> 
> Probably FC has switched from hotplug to udev...

It is possible, have to check that. Then it means that all the stuff in 
/etc/hotplug directoey and whole hotplug package is needless.

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Best Regards, Jar