Bug 42794

Summary:	mei: unable to register watchdog device.
Product:	Other	Reporter:	Lars Stokholm (lars.stokholm)
Component:	Modules	Assignee:	other_modules
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	low	CC:	alan, skhilko
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.2.6	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	kernel.log lsmod lspci -vvv

Description Lars Stokholm 2012-02-17 21:40:46 UTC

Created attachment 72431 [details]
kernel.log

When booting my Arch Linux installation, I've been getting this error in the kernel log since v.3.2:

Feb 17 22:14:27 localhost kernel: [    6.099400] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 (err=-16).
Feb 17 22:14:27 localhost kernel: [    6.099470] watchdog: error registering /dev/watchdog (err=-16).
Feb 17 22:14:27 localhost kernel: [    6.099522] mei: unable to register watchdog device.

It's been discussed in the Arch Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133083

Disabling the mei module will get rid of this error. It's a small thing, but annoying to have do disable modules I think.

Is this a bug or an issue relating to the way Arch's kernel is configured?

Comment 1 Lars Stokholm 2012-02-17 21:41:42 UTC

Created attachment 72432 [details]
lsmod

Comment 2 Lars Stokholm 2012-02-17 21:42:13 UTC

Created attachment 72433 [details]
lspci -vvv