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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com>
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Subject: Re: idle=poll
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"Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any kind of an ioctl in the kernel for turning on/off idle=poll
>  on the fly without having to reboot?

Nope.