Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:36:29 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:19:24PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:14:35PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Kernel was enabling watchdog, with out the userspace having the > > > heartbeat daemon.... > > > > Watchdog are normally only armed when someone opens the device > > first. > > But thats not what I see with for ex with, w83627hf_wdt.c > > Its done at the module_init time. (while I thought it should be > really done when some user level app opens the device, probably > its poorly written to take care if the kernel panics before starting userland. > but kernel can even die before the watchdog driver load aswell ;-)
Ok that watchdog driver is just broken then. Putting the watchdog maintainer into cc.
-Andi >
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