[elrepo-devel] a few comment about elrepo's packages

[Alan Bartlett]

On 29/08/2009, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:

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>  2. Blacklisting
>
>  We provide a standardised mechanism within kmodtool for blacklisting
>  modules where needed. Alan would be able to give you an example of a
>  modules that requires this, but I believe some of the network controller
>  driver modules do.

When either the kmod-r8101 or the kmod-r8168 package is installed, the
Red Hat distributed 8169 module is blacklisted.

The requirement, to blacklist any existing 8169 module before a 8101
or 8168 module is loaded, is specified in the Realtek documentation.

Alan.