The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 6.1-stable tree.
I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
<stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be
applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
seen again.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 9e8b89926fb87e5625bdde6fd5de2c31fb1d83bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:41:48 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] ipmi:ssif: Remove rtc_us_timer
It was cruft left over from older handling of run to completion.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index 5a377e86dade..c25c4b1a03ae 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -241,12 +241,6 @@ struct ssif_info {
*/
bool req_flags;
- /*
- * Used to perform timer operations when run-to-completion
- * mode is on. This is a countdown timer.
- */
- int rtc_us_timer;
-
/* Used for sending/receiving data. +1 for the length. */
unsigned char data[IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH + 1];
unsigned int data_len;
@@ -530,7 +524,6 @@ static void msg_done_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,
static void start_get(struct ssif_info *ssif_info)
{
- ssif_info->rtc_us_timer = 0;
ssif_info->multi_pos = 0;
ssif_i2c_send(ssif_info, msg_done_handler, I2C_SMBUS_READ,
@@ -622,7 +615,6 @@ static void msg_done_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,
flags = ipmi_ssif_lock_cond(ssif_info, &oflags);
ssif_info->waiting_alert = true;
- ssif_info->rtc_us_timer = SSIF_MSG_USEC;
if (!ssif_info->stopping)
mod_timer(&ssif_info->retry_timer,
jiffies + SSIF_MSG_JIFFIES);
@@ -973,7 +965,6 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,
/* Wait a jiffie then request the next message */
ssif_info->waiting_alert = true;
ssif_info->retries_left = SSIF_RECV_RETRIES;
- ssif_info->rtc_us_timer = SSIF_MSG_PART_USEC;
if (!ssif_info->stopping)
mod_timer(&ssif_info->retry_timer,
jiffies + SSIF_MSG_PART_JIFFIES);
