Comment 35 for bug 932381

Well I guess no one is going to fix the it87_wdt module any time soon :(

As a work-around, my own version of the watchdog daemon (update #117 or later) now detects if it is reported as "IT87 WDT" when queried and re-sets the time-out on each refresh, rather then writing '\0' to the device. It appears to work OK on the motherboards I have.

Code can be found here:

http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~psc/watchdog/Linux-Watchdog.html

Usual disclaimer about (A) it is not the official version, and (B) check and test the code yourself, as absolutely no warranty!