From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759206AbZCWP72 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:59:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754818AbZCWP7M (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:59:12 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60385 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755089AbZCWP7L (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:59:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:32:56 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Martin Wilck 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) Message-ID: <20090323153256.GA7528@kroah.com> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49C78BE0.9090107@fujitsu-siemens.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:17:20PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote: > +module_param(kipmid_max_busy, uint, 0); 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. thanks, greg k-h