Andrew Morton wrote:

>Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
>  
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>>Indeed, this function is badly written.  In rewriting, I couldn't find a
>> nice function for reading integers from userspace, and the proc_dointvec
>> stuff didn't seem terribly suitable.
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>We write numbers into profs files all the time.  Is there something
>different about the IPMI requirement which makes the approach used by, say,
>dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() inappropriate?
>  
>
Ok, that's probably better, and this probably belongs in 
/proc/sys/dev/ipmi.  This is new enough that it doesn't matter, I don't 
think any one is using it yet.

Patch is attached.

-Corey