Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:00:50 -0500 (EST) | From | "Scott D. Webster" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.0.24 |
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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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