The patch titled IPMI: tidy msghandler timer has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipmi-tidy-msghandler-timer.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: IPMI: tidy msghandler timer From: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> Tidy up the timer usage in the IPMI driver. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 7 ++----- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-tidy-msghandler-timer drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-tidy-msghandler-timer +++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -3738,11 +3738,8 @@ static int ipmi_init_msghandler(void) proc_ipmi_root->owner = THIS_MODULE; #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ - init_timer(&ipmi_timer); - ipmi_timer.data = 0; - ipmi_timer.function = ipmi_timeout; - ipmi_timer.expires = jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES; - add_timer(&ipmi_timer); + setup_timer(&ipmi_timer, ipmi_timeout, 0); + mod_timer(&ipmi_timer, jiffies + IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES); atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list, &panic_block); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minyard@xxxxxxx are origin.patch ipmi-use-schedule-in-kthread.patch drivers-char-ipmi-ipmi_msghandlerc-make-proc_ipmi_root-static.patch git-watchdog.patch ipmi-tidy-msghandler-timer.patch ipmi-remove-high-res-timer-code.patch ipmi-watchdog-handle-panic-properly.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html