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SubjectRe: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support
> 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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