linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipmi: Increase KCS timeouts

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Date:	Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:50:26 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipmi: Increase KCS timeouts

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

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

A dupe.  The first one was correct.
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