[Marco d'Itri] > I maintain the package providing it, but I fear it is the result of > cargo cult sysadmining. A driver will not engage the watchdog > anyway until /dev/watchdog is opened.
If I remember correctly, the reason is that the observed behaviour is that a driver sometimes will engage the watchdog without /dev/watchdog is opened, triggered by one driver starting without anyone touching /dev/watchdog. This caused the installer to stop after 1 minute. I do not remember any more details. This was discovered a few years ago, and I hope that crazy driver has been fixed in the mean time. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
