What is the meaning of "IPMI Watchdog: set timeout error: -22"?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • I see the following error messages in '/var/log/messages' after booting my system.
  • Since the update to the most recent version (in comparision to the packages from last december 2013) the following new messages appears
IPMI Watchdog: Unable to register misc device
IPMI Watchdog: set timeout error: -22
IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

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