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Message-ID: <ac3eb2510810091158x3b677959j480c554b86c1ee26@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:58:44 +0200
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Arkadiusz Miskiewicz" <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
<a.miskiewicz@...il.com> wrote:
> 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?

While the driver you expect to work is loaded, what does:
  ls -l /dev/watchdog
print?

If the devno of this node is 10:130, what does:
  find /sys/class /sys/devices/ -name dev | xargs grep 10:130
print?

Kay
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