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Message-ID: <49C7B6C7.3070204@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:20:23 +0100
From:	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@...itsu-siemens.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] limit CPU time spent in kipmid (PREVIOUS WAS BROKEN)

Greg KH wrote:

> Can you make this modifiable at runtime by setting the mode to 0644?
> That way people would not have to unload and then reload the module in
> order to be able to fix their machines, as they usually don't know they
> have a problem until they run their system for a while.

Good point, but let's first sort out if there's agreement about the 
general idea, and do the fine-tuning later. I may actually make sense to 
make this an array parameter so that different IPMI interfaces can have 
different settings (like force_kipmid).

Martin

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