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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [PATCH 7/12] IPMI: add poll delay
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:35:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202043520.GC30531@localdomain> (raw)


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@acm.org>

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc6/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc6.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc6/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)

             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-02  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-02  4:35 Corey Minyard [this message]
2006-12-03 21:26 ` [PATCH 7/12] IPMI: add poll delay Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 13:43   ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-05 22:40     ` Jesper Juhl

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