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authorCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2010-05-26 23:43:50 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 18:12:50 +0200
commitddac44b7b21b72c0d9d6882ac8d7027afc25138c (patch)
treebfdd1c8fdd569563918f0b57f922a53934d2d7ee /drivers/char
parentipmi: attempt to register multiple SIs of the same type (diff)
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ipmi: change timeout and event poll to one second
The timeouts in IPMI are in the 1-5 second range in message handling, so a 1 second timeout is a reasonable thing to do. This should help with reducing power consumption on idle systems. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index c6ad4234378d..5de4bb99cb97 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -4037,8 +4037,8 @@ static void ipmi_request_event(void)
static struct timer_list ipmi_timer;
-/* Call every ~100 ms. */
-#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME 100
+/* Call every ~1000 ms. */
+#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME 1000
/* How many jiffies does it take to get to the timeout time. */
#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES ((IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME * HZ) / 1000)