> > That breaks the existing behaviour of hot pluggable watchdog interfaces > > and is different to just about any other device in the kernel. Today with > > any desktop or server distribution you can already trivially arrange for > > watchdog daemons to start at the point a watchdog is detected dynamically. > > > > Ok, you have a point. Wonder if any distributions are doing that, though. > Any idea ? I don't know for any of the out of the box mainstream ones. There is a second problem if you register the watchdog but don't actually have it enabled. Consider the case where a user has the mei watchdog disabled and a more advanced watchdog card plugged in - in that case the naïvely implemented existing watchdog app may bind to the non-functional watchdog, not the correct one. Alan -- 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
