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

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Message-Id: <200810092102.16110.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:02:15 +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 7:22 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
>

> > ... 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?

# ls -l /dev/watchdog
crw------- 1 root root 10, 130 sie  8 17:00 /dev/watchdog
# find /sys/class /sys/devices/ -name dev | xargs grep 10:130
/sys/class/misc/watchdog/dev:10:130


> Kay



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