From: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]>
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Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ linux-2.6/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)

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