Re: loading ipmi_watchdog causes tons of other watchdog modules to be loaded

[Andrey Borzenkov]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Thursday 09 October 2008, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
>>
>> <a.miskiewicz@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
> 

That's true, but it declares itself as handler for this device entry very
deep in some callback. It is quite possible that event that would have
triggered this callback did not yet happen. 

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