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SubjectRe: Linux-2.0.24
On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Uhh, the time is now 05:23 AM, and I finally got the 2.0.24 release together.
> Could people please test this out, so that I could at least feel that I
> haven't been up this late (early) for nothing? I'm going to bed,

Ekkk! This patch didn't get in:

--8<------------------------------------------------------------------
--- drivers/char/misc.c.orig Wed Oct 30 12:22:34 1996
+++ drivers/char/misc.c Mon Oct 28 12:22:01 1996
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
extern int atixl_busmouse_init(void);
extern int sun_mouse_init(void);
extern void watchdog_init(void);
+extern void wdt_init(void);
extern void pcwatchdog_init(void);
extern int rtc_init(void);

@@ -219,6 +220,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG
watchdog_init();
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_WDT
+ wdt_init();
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PCWATCHDOG
pcwatchdog_init();
#endif
---------------------------------------------------------------------->8--
This fixes the problem with the watchdog hardware timer card
driver not getting linked into the kernel. This patch was provided to me
by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>. I found the general problem (on a
tip from Jay Estabrook), that it wasn't getting linked, and Richard found
the specific reason why. Alan Cox had said that it would get in, but I
guess you (Linus) snuck it by him. Sneaky devil! ;-) I had intended to
send this patch out today anyway (just in case no one else did), but I was
hoping it would be before 2.0.24 was released. 2.0.25, anyone?
hehehehe.... Well, I'm intending to do a watchdog mini-howto, so if it
doesn't get into a new 2.0.X kernel, I'll put it in the howto.

Scott D. Webster I had far rather walk, as I do, in daily terror
Senior, Computer Science of eternity, than feel that this was only a
William Paterson College children's game in which all of the contestants
http://www.wilpaterson.edu would get equally worthless prizes in the end.
/home/students/webster/index.htm - T. S. Elliot







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