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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>
Corey Minyard 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

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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)