Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:50:26 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipmi: Increase KCS timeouts |
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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.
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