Hi, this patch add a hardware watchdog device driver. It supports the 16 bit watchdog timer on superio chip it8712f-j, it 8712f-k, it8716f and it8726f. Today it was tested under vanilla 2.6.24.3, vanilla 2.6.24.2 and Mandriva with 2.6.24.2 and 2.6.24 kernel. Regards, Oliver