Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:48:17 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support |
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> 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 ;-)
Various watchdogs fail to conform in assorted differing ways. Wim did some patches to build a common watchdog library and I sent him a rework of it a while ago. Once that is adopted this should all get cleaned up. Right now Wim is a bit busy however.
Alan
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