Watchdog daemon and drivers
 

Since I upgraded my kernel image from 2.6.8 to 2.6.10 I have a bunch of extra drivers loading for no apparent reason.

In /etc/hotplug/blacklist, near the end is a list of drivers. These are all getting loaded, although I don't need any of them. The comment in the file is:

# watchdog drivers should be loaded only if a watchdog daemon is installed

The relevant part of lsmod is:

ide_generic 1152 0 [permanent]
via82cxxx 13788 0 [permanent]
trm290 4196 0 [permanent]
triflex 3680 0 [permanent]
slc90e66 5856 0 [permanent]
sis5513 16392 0 [permanent]
siimage 12512 0 [permanent]
serverworks 9160 0 [permanent]
sc1200 7264 0 [permanent]
rz1000 2432 0 [permanent]
piix 10116 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_old 11200 0 [permanent]
opti621 4580 0 [permanent]
ns87415 4200 0 [permanent]
hpt366 20128 0 [permanent]
ide_disk 21024 6 hpt366
hpt34x 5152 0 [permanent]
generic 3904 0 [permanent]
cy82c693 4612 0 [permanent]
cs5530 5344 0 [permanent]
cs5520 4576 0 [permanent]
cmd64x 11964 0 [permanent]
atiixp 5968 0 [permanent]
amd74xx 14172 0 [permanent]
alim15x3 12076 0 [permanent]
aec62xx 7264 0 [permanent]
pdc202xx_new 8928 0 [permanent]
ide_core 133036 28 ide_cd,ide_generic,via82cxxx,trm290,triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,sc1200,rz1000,piix, pdc202xx_old,opti621,ns87415,hpt366,ide_disk,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cs5520,cmd64x,atiixp,amd 74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx,pdc202xx_new


No watchdog module is shown as loaded. How can I stop this? this happens on another computer I have that I did the same upgrade on.

uname -a is:
Linux pdx 2.6.10-1-686 #1 Fri Mar 11 03:55:46 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

This is the stock kernel image. I don't compile kernels, it's not worth the grief.

Barbara

I searched for this myself, because I receive a slew of errors during boot up in my 2.6.10 kernel. The errors are involving removing modules because devices are busy. After googling, I found that it is because of these "permanent" modules and the errors are normal :confused: Recently I tried the 2.6.11 kernel on my Libranet system and I didn't see the errors. You may try upgrading to the 2.6.11 kernel to see if that fixes anything. I'm not sure if it will. However, the 2.6.11 kernel is now in Debian unstable so you can install without recompiling. :cool: