Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760278AbYJIRWl (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:22:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755042AbYJIRWa (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:22:30 -0400 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com ([216.239.58.188]:8912 "EHLO gv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754026AbYJIRW3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:22:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=Wf6Y4keS6oFMt//76z9zYwhFVyNtKuILk1+rAfJ+2QjCvLvXyy955FjGY5Yl1Gvsru i6LplXyXFC8jyacbF0inSbPDF3BJqBLzYleb891nx2qTmUKH/77g2nI7uLelAAFpgCN2 BPupzRPCbC7JTSsURZiGsJUgQO97MKHilHOGA= From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz To: "Kay Sievers" Subject: Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:22:23 +0200 User-Agent: PLD Linux KMail/1.9.10 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200810091348.19828.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810091922.24108.a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 27 On Thursday 09 October 2008, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz > > wrote: > > No udev on the system. kernel 2.6.25.18-1. > > > > After loading ipmi_watchdog and doing "cat /dev/watchdog" tons of other, > > useles, watchdog modules is loaded. Any idea what introduced such weird > > behaviour? > > I guess the /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe, which lets the kernel fork a > modprobe process when you touch a "dangling" device node, which does > not have corresponding driver. ... but that ipmi_watchdog is the correct driver that handles /dev/watchdog, so this shouldn't be happening, correct? > Kay -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ -- 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/