Change the mode of the frontend module parameters to 0644. This allow changing parameters (i.e. shutdown timeout) without unloading the modules. Afaics, the code is able to handle that. --- dvb_frontend.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.16/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2006-03-21 21:14:36 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.16/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2006-03-22 01:48:21 +0100 @@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ static int dvb_powerdown_on_sleep = 1; module_param_named(frontend_debug, dvb_frontend_debug, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(frontend_debug, "Turn on/off frontend core debugging (default:off)."); -module_param(dvb_shutdown_timeout, int, 0444); +module_param(dvb_shutdown_timeout, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dvb_shutdown_timeout, "wait <shutdown_timeout> seconds after close() before suspending hardware"); -module_param(dvb_force_auto_inversion, int, 0444); +module_param(dvb_force_auto_inversion, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dvb_force_auto_inversion, "0: normal (default), 1: INVERSION_AUTO forced always"); -module_param(dvb_override_tune_delay, int, 0444); +module_param(dvb_override_tune_delay, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dvb_override_tune_delay, "0: normal (default), >0 => delay in milliseconds to wait for lock after a tune attempt"); -module_param(dvb_powerdown_on_sleep, int, 0444); +module_param(dvb_powerdown_on_sleep, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(dvb_powerdown_on_sleep, "0: do not power down, 1: turn LNB volatage off on sleep (default)"); #define dprintk if (dvb_frontend_debug) printk _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb