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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipmi: Increase KCS timeouts
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:50:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120203115026.9e2a357f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328284079-5489-2-git-send-email-cminyard@mvista.com>

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:47:55 -0600
Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> wrote:

> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> 
> We currently time out and retry KCS transactions after 1 second of waiting
> for IBF or OBF. This appears to be too short for some hardware. The IPMI
> spec says "All system software wait loops should include error timeouts. For
> simplicity, such timeouts are not shown explicitly in the flow diagrams. A
> five-second timeout or greater is recommended". Change the timeout to five
> seconds to satisfy the slow hardware.

Several of these patches fix bugs/problems, but there isn't enough info
here for me to decide whether we should patch 3.3 or earlier kernels. 
I'm assuming "3.4 only".

> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>

A dupe.  The first one was correct.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03 15:47 [PATCH 1/6] ipmi: decreases the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode Corey Minyard
2012-02-03 15:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] ipmi: Increase KCS timeouts Corey Minyard
2012-02-03 19:50   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-03 15:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages Corey Minyard
2012-02-03 19:44   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-03 20:01     ` Corey Minyard
2012-02-03 15:47 ` [PATCH 4/6] ipmi: Fix message handling during panics Corey Minyard
2012-02-03 15:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] ipmi: Simplify locking Corey Minyard
2012-02-03 15:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] ipmi: Use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot Corey Minyard

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