A user was running into timeout issues doing maintenance commands over
the IPMB network behind an IPMI controller. Extend the maintenance
mode concept to messages over IPMB and allow the timeouts to be tuned.
Lots of cleanup, style fixing, some bugfixes, and such.
At least one user was having trouble with the way the IPMI driver would
lock the i2c driver module it used. The IPMI driver was not designed
for hotplug. However, hotplug is a reality now, so the IPMI driver
was modified to support hotplug.
The proc interface code is now completely removed. Long live sysfs!
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Merge tag 'for-linus-4.18' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi
Pull IPMI updates from Corey Minyard:
"It's been a busy release for the IPMI driver. Some notable changes:
- A user was running into timeout issues doing maintenance commands
over the IPMB network behind an IPMI controller.
Extend the maintenance mode concept to messages over IPMB and allow
the timeouts to be tuned.
- Lots of cleanup, style fixing, some bugfixes, and such.
- At least one user was having trouble with the way the IPMI driver
would lock the i2c driver module it used.
The IPMI driver was not designed for hotplug. However, hotplug is a
reality now, so the IPMI driver was modified to support hotplug.
- The proc interface code is now completely removed. Long live sysfs!"
* tag 'for-linus-4.18' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi: (35 commits)
ipmi: Properly release srcu locks on error conditions
ipmi: NPCM7xx KCS BMC: enable interrupt to the host
ipmi:bt: Set the timeout before doing a capabilities check
ipmi: Remove the proc interface
ipmi_ssif: Fix uninitialized variable issue
ipmi: add an NPCM7xx KCS BMC driver
ipmi_si: Clean up shutdown a bit
ipmi_si: Rename intf_num to si_num
ipmi: Remove smi->intf checks
ipmi_ssif: Get rid of unused intf_num
ipmi: Get rid of ipmi_user_t and ipmi_smi_t in include files
ipmi: ipmi_unregister_smi() cannot fail, have it return void
ipmi_devintf: Add an error return on invalid ioctls
ipmi: Remove usecount function from interfaces
ipmi_ssif: Remove usecount handling
ipmi: Remove condition on interface shutdown
ipmi_ssif: Convert over to a shutdown handler
ipmi_si: Convert over to a shutdown handler
ipmi: Rework locking and shutdown for hot remove
ipmi: Fix some counter issues
...