IPMI: add polled interface

Currently the IPMI watchdog timer sets the watchdog timeout on a panic, but it
doesn't actually poll the interface to make sure the message goes out.

Add an interface for polling the IPMI driver, and add code to the IPMI
watchdog timer to poll the interface when the timer is set from a panic.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ipmi.h b/include/linux/ipmi.h
index 7a9db390c56a..c5bd28b69aec 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipmi.h
@@ -365,6 +365,16 @@ int ipmi_request_supply_msgs(ipmi_user_t          user,
                              int                  priority);
 
 /*
+ * Poll the IPMI interface for the user.  This causes the IPMI code to
+ * do an immediate check for information from the driver and handle
+ * anything that is immediately pending.  This will not block in any
+ * way.  This is useful if you need to implement polling from the user
+ * for things like modifying the watchdog timeout when a panic occurs
+ * or disabling the watchdog timer on a reboot.
+ */
+void ipmi_poll_interface(ipmi_user_t user);
+
+/*
  * When commands come in to the SMS, the user can register to receive
  * them.  Only one user can be listening on a specific netfn/cmd/chan tuple
  * at a time, you will get an EBUSY error if the command is already