From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>
To: "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:22:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810091922.24108.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510810090636w51e04a7fxfa36d8b016b236d@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 09 October 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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.
... but that ipmi_watchdog is the correct driver that handles /dev/watchdog,
so this shouldn't be happening, correct?
> Kay
--
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 11:48 loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-10-09 13:36 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-09 17:22 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2008-10-09 18:09 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2008-10-09 18:58 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-09 19:02 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-10-09 19:09 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-09 20:18 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-10-09 21:37 ` Kay Sievers
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