The patch titled IPMI: add poll delay has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipmi-add-poll-delay.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: add poll delay From: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> Make sure to delay a little in the IPMI poll routine so we can pass in a timeout time and thus time things out. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c~ipmi-add-poll-delay drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c~ipmi-add-poll-delay +++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -807,7 +807,12 @@ static void poll(void *send_info) { struct smi_info *smi_info = send_info; - smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0); + /* + * Make sure there is some delay in the poll loop so we can + * drive time forward and timeout things. + */ + udelay(10); + smi_event_handler(smi_info, 10); } static void request_events(void *send_info) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minyard@xxxxxxx are ipmi-fix-device-model-name.patch ipmi-remove-interface-number-limits.patch ipmi-pass-sysfs-name-from-lower-level-driver.patch ipmi-allow-hot-system-interface-remove.patch ipmi-add-maintenance-mode.patch ipmi-fix-request-events.patch ipmi-add-poll-delay.patch ipmi-system-interface-hotplug.patch ipmi-add-pigeonpoint-poweroff.patch ipmi-fix-pci-warning.patch ipmi-fix-bt-long-busy.patch ipmi-increase-kcs-message-size.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