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ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems

This patch fixes an issue in OpenIPMI module where sometimes an ABORT command
is sent after sending an IPMI request to BMC causing the IPMI request to fail.

Signed-off-by: YiCheng Doe <yicheng.doe@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Tom Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Tested-by: Andy Cress <andy.cress@us.kontron.com>
Tested-by: Mika Lansirine <Mika.Lansirinne@stonesoft.com>
Tested-by: Brian De Wolf <bldewolf@csupomona.edu>
Cc: Jean Michel Audet <Jean-Michel.Audet@ca.Kontron.com>
Cc: Jozef Sudelsky <jozef.sudolsky@elbiahosting.sk>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Doe, YiCheng and committed by
Linus Torvalds 4c418ba9 4afcc10a

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drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
··· 900 900 printk("**Enqueue: %d.%9.9d\n", t.tv_sec, t.tv_usec); 901 901 #endif 902 902 903 + /* 904 + * last_timeout_jiffies is updated here to avoid 905 + * smi_timeout() handler passing very large time_diff 906 + * value to smi_event_handler() that causes 907 + * the send command to abort. 908 + */ 909 + smi_info->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies; 910 + 903 911 mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES); 904 912 905 913 if (smi_info->thread)