This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipmi:ssif: Increase the message retry time
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipmi-ssif-increase-the-message-retry-time.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 321ee5a94bb8ac4cd9701b68f8575b899296d6ec
Author: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 3 15:03:11 2022 -0500
ipmi:ssif: Increase the message retry time
[ Upstream commit 39721d62bbc16ebc9bb2bdc2c163658f33da3b0b ]
The spec states that the minimum message retry time is 60ms, but it was
set to 20ms. Correct it.
Reported by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 00bb7e763ec9 ("ipmi:ssif: Add a timer between request retries")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index cbd56886f1d2a..c25c4b1a03ae0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
/*
* Timer values
*/
-#define SSIF_MSG_USEC 20000 /* 20ms between message tries. */
+#define SSIF_MSG_USEC 60000 /* 60ms between message tries. */
#define SSIF_MSG_PART_USEC 5000 /* 5ms for a message part */
/* How many times to we retry sending/receiving the message. */
