From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pratyush Anand Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 dracut 3/3] watchdog: ensure that module is loaded as early as possible Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:48:29 +0530 Message-ID: <56E8DE95.4090308@redhat.com> References: <2751555c29f26f69a63888745513edeceb39d416.1458099200.git.panand@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2751555c29f26f69a63888745513edeceb39d416.1458099200.git.panand-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Dave Young , Don Zickus , Harald Hoyer On Wednesday 16 March 2016 09:09 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote: > It is expected that a watchdog module will disable an active watchdog when > its probe is called ie, when it is loaded. So an early load of the module > will help to disable it earlier. > This can be helpful in some corner cases where kdump and watchdog daemon > both are active. > > Testing: > -- When watchdog kernel modules were added > # dracut --no-hostonly initramfs-test.img -a watchdog > # lsinitrd initramfs-test.img -f etc/cmdline.d/04-watchdog.conf Sorry, please ignore this patch and take "resend" if there is not any further comment. ~Pratyush