Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758785AbZCWQUh (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:20:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754140AbZCWQU2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:20:28 -0400 Received: from dgate10.fujitsu-siemens.com ([80.70.172.49]:32557 "EHLO dgate10.fujitsu-siemens.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752528AbZCWQU2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:20:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: s=s768; d=fujitsu-siemens.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=X-SBRSScore:X-IronPort-AV:Received:X-IronPort-AV: Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Organization: User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=u6VEzqoZ0xsmo7pW94Qghu/cHuHbJQwh8Qx9t+eBA9NkQpeJRCHR1ubW hU3P5icebO6x7zd2N4hcPHoRIFo8Ew06MBM6uoKdAv0Kj1G0sQ+bBdG4g 84ObVzXvlyu4f8d; X-SBRSScore: None X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,408,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="64678056" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,408,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="45450504" Message-ID: <49C7B6C7.3070204@fujitsu-siemens.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:20:23 +0100 From: Martin Wilck Organization: Fujitsu Siemens Computers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.15pre (X11/20080508) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Corey Minyard , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [PATCH] limit CPU time spent in kipmid (PREVIOUS WAS BROKEN) References: <49C27281.4040207@fujitsu-siemens.com> <49C2B994.7040808@acm.org> <20090319235114.GA18182@kroah.com> <49C3B6A5.5030408@acm.org> <20090320174701.GA14823@kroah.com> <49C3E03E.10506@acm.org> <49C78BE0.9090107@fujitsu-siemens.com> <20090323153256.GA7528@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20090323153256.GA7528@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1153 Lines: 34 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 -- Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer FSC IP ESP DEV 6 Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn Germany Tel: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: mailto:martin.wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com Company Details: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/imprint.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/