Hi Marcos, > Hi Wim! > > I'm sending this email because I've seem a strange error messages > about iTCO_wdt in the boot: > > [ 15.503489] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0 > [ 15.512447] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.07 > [ 15.513535] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, > TCOBASE=0x0460) > [ 15.513548] iTCO_wdt: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16) > [ 15.513774] iTCO_wdt: probe of iTCO_wdt failed with error -16 > > I don't know exactly how many time this warning appers, but I'm here > to report this! This is because you either have no /dev/watchdog file (major 10 minor 130) or because another watchdog device is allready loaded. > So, while finding what can be these warning, I saw a document writted > by Wolfram talking about rework watchdog device drivers with watchdog > framework. So, iTCO_wdt is outdated and needs these changes. > > I'm doing some work(I'm not a kernel hacker yet, but I'm trying to be > =D), and based in the Wolfram's documentation, and your documentation > about watchdog kernel api, I have some changes. > > The full diff is attached. This diff cause a lot of build errors, but, > do you think I'm in the right direction? If you agree with the > direction that this is going, I will continue to change this. > > As I have this device, and I can test my changes, I believe this is a > nice work to learn more about the kernel. > > I will be very happy if I could, with you help, rework this driver. I allready have a reworked/converted driver, but there are some other dependancies to fix first. So no need to put time in doing a conversion on iTCO_wdt.c Kind regards, Wim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
