On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:06:57PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote: > Nothing prevent user from supplying a bogus number. The main question > is, clamp with what number ? So you definitely want to forbid too large timeouts - that wouldn't make any sense anyway. And too small either, because a too small timeout would make a potentially functioning fw broken. > IMO, if user is overriding the default timeout number then its possible > that user is dealing with a buggy firmware which does not work with > default timeout and silently clamping the value will not help them. No one said "silently" - you simply say: "Correcting PSP "Correcting PSP probe timeout to X seconds." when loading the driver so that the user is aware that the value she entered might not be an optimal one. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.