On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 23:37 +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > On 01/02/2011 10:44 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> Then add +1 to what Michael Biebl already asked: why that message should > >> be showed? > > > > Because the watchdog feature was enabled at compile-time and you > > presumably want it to work. If you add 'nowatchdog' to the kernel > > parameters then the kernel will not attempt to set up the watchdog, and > > the error message will not appear. > > Thanks, i didn't know that parameter, but i don't want to disable the > lockup detector. > > I'm sure that kernel devels will find a better way to handle unsupported > hardware and the situation where the watchdog cannot be used (anyone > without a local APIC will see this message?). So, hardly anyone. > From the user point of view, i think that the best is to handle > silently the unsupported case (at least in quiet boot) and to show a > meaningful message in the syslog. From the current message, if you are > not a kernel developer, it's not clear if it's a warning or an error > message. In other words, it's not clear if the watchdog will function or > not. Yes, I see, it doesn't say that this is a fatal error for watchdog initialisation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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