Hi Bernard, Tom will have a look at the fix but the below code is wrong: > -module_param(allow_kdump, int, 0); > +module_param(allow_kdump, int, 1); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(allow_kdump, "Start a kernel dump after NMI occurs"); the syntax is: #define module_param(name, type, perm) perm sets the visibility in sysfs: 000 means it's not there, read bits mean it's readable, write bits mean it's writable. perm is not the default value for the integer but a file permission attribute. Kind regards, Wim.