Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758784AbYGaWge (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:36:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755574AbYGaWgX (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:36:23 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:56620 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755558AbYGaWgW (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:36:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:36:29 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Suresh Siddha Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "arjan@linux.intel.com" , "roland@redhat.com" , "drepper@redhat.com" , "mikpe@it.uu.se" , "chrisw@sous-sol.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , wim@iguana.be Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support Message-ID: <20080731223629.GT23938@one.firstfloor.org> References: <488FA318.3040905@zytor.com> <20080729232951.GB11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <488FAB2B.7050405@zytor.com> <20080730100326.GA9683@elte.hu> <20080730182539.GA17140@elte.hu> <20080730234102.GF11223@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20080731212915.GH2729@elte.hu> <20080731215808.GB8563@linux-os.sc.intel.com> <20080731221435.GS23938@one.firstfloor.org> <20080731221924.GD8563@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080731221924.GD8563@linux-os.sc.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 25 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:19:24PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:14:35PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Kernel was enabling watchdog, with out the userspace having the > > > heartbeat daemon.... > > > > Watchdog are normally only armed when someone opens the device > > first. > > 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 ;-) Ok that watchdog driver is just broken then. Putting the watchdog maintainer into cc. -Andi > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/