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
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