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On 12/07/11 17:25, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
>> A related issue I noticed with iTCO_wdt is that something
>> else in the kernel disables the iTCO watchdog (which my BIOS had started).
>> This is undesirable for obvious reasons.
> 
> This sounds related to iTCO, but unrelated to my patch.  Right?

Right, unrelated to your patch but it could affect you.
As the kernel comes up it may reinit the iTCO, disabling
the watchdog until the iTCO_wdt module is loaded and patted.

cheers,
Pádraig.