The patch titled IPMI: add poll delay has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ipmi-add-poll-delay.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 origin.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