Corey Minyard
c65ea99659
The IPMI driver has a mechanism to tell the lower layers it needs to watch for messages, commands, and watchdogs (so it doesn't needlessly poll). However, it needed some extensions, it needed a way to tell what is being waited for so it could set the timeout appropriately. The update to the lower layer was also being done once a second at best because it was done in the main timeout handler. However, if a command is sent and a response message is coming back, it needed to be started immediately. So modify the code to update immediately if it needs to be enabled. Disable is still lazy. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Tested-by: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakant.patel@cavium.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.