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CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG missing from 2.5.8-dj1

DISCUSSION A Guy Called Tyketto 2 participants 2 messages Apr 16, 2002

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Once again, subject sez it all. CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG is mentioned in
drivers/char/Config.help, but is not a configurable option in any part of make {old,x,menu}config. Therefore isn't compiled or even touched:

bradl@bellicha:/usr/src/linux/drivers/char> grep CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG Config.in bradl@bellicha:/usr/src/linux/drivers/char>

Because of this, my software watchdog program refuses to run, as
softdog.o doesn't exist, which creates /dev/watchdog.

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Once again, subject sez it all. CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG is mentioned in
drivers/char/Config.help, but is not a configurable option in any part of make {old,x,menu}config. Therefore isn't compiled or even touched:

bradl@bellicha:/usr/src/linux/drivers/char> grep CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG Config.in bradl@bellicha:/usr/src/linux/drivers/char>

I'll fix this up in -dj2 by adding the missing tristate ' Software Watchdog' CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG to Config.in

Thanks for pointing it out.

Dave.

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