Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] driver core: Add common support to skip probe for un-authorized devices

[Andi Kleen]

> 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