[CentOS] How to blacklist a device driver (sysemd)

[Frank Thommen]

On 11/15/2017 07:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 11/15/2017 10:35 AM, Frank Thommen wrote:
>>
>> I tried with the files
>>   /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>>   /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
>> and with entries
>>   blacklist mlx5_core
>>   blacklist mlx5_ib
>
> The "blacklist" entries prevent a module being loaded by its alias
> (typically a PCI ID), but not from being loaded if something explicitly
> loads it by module name.  Most likely, those modules are included in
> your initrd.
>
> I'd suggest using the entries described above, and editing grub.conf to
> add arguments to the kernel command line:
>     rd.driver.blacklist=mlx5_core rd.driver.blacklist=mlx5_ib
> ... then rebuilding your initrd using "dracut --force"

Thanks for the hint.  However as this should only be a temporary measure 
and needs to be done on ca. 100 hosts I'm not sure if we want to go 
through the hassles.  Deploying a textfile is no problem, but creating 
new initrds for differing hardware....

frank