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SubjectRe: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
<a.miskiewicz@gmail.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.

Kay


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