[PATCH] IPMI: add poll delay

Make sure to delay a little in the IPMI poll routine so we can pass in a
timeout time and thus time things out.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index c02f5177a816..bedd76310045 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -807,7 +807,12 @@ static void poll(void *send_info)
 {
         struct smi_info *smi_info = send_info;
 
-        smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0);
+        /*
+         * Make sure there is some delay in the poll loop so we can
+         * drive time forward and timeout things.
+         */
+        udelay(10);
+        smi_event_handler(smi_info, 10);
 }
 
 static void request_events(void *send_info)