linux-kernel - Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded

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Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:22:23 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
To:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded

On Thursday 09 October 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
>
> <a.miskiewicz@...il.com> wrote:
> > No udev on the system. kernel 2.6.25.18-1.
> >
> > After loading ipmi_watchdog and doing "cat /dev/watchdog" tons of other,
> > useles, watchdog modules is loaded. Any idea what introduced such weird
> > behaviour?
>
> I guess the /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe, which lets the kernel fork a
> modprobe process when you touch a "dangling" device node, which does
> not have corresponding driver.

... but that ipmi_watchdog is the correct driver that handles /dev/watchdog, 
so this shouldn't be happening, correct?

> Kay

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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