[nylug-talk] Hotplug and the Dallas Semi One-Wire USB fob

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Here is an interesting question.
I write stuff for, and make use of the Dallas Semiconductor invented
One-Wire technology via Linux. (More information can be found on
http://owfs.sf.net .)

To that end I typically use their USB fob for communicating with my
designs. And the 2.6.x series of kernels have modules for this thing,
that's the one found in the one-wire directory on the kernel source,
DS9490R by name, but you would see it in lower case.

It seems I can't get the hotplug routines to blacklist that module and
its relatives. I was able to do so before, but that drive is, ah, now
a doorstop. Reason for all of this is that the module and its
relatives interfere with the software described at that website.
-- 
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