ipmi: run to completion fixes

The "run_to_completion" mode was somewhat broken.  Locks need to be avoided in
run_to_completion mode, and it shouldn't be used by normal users, just
internally for panic situations.

This patch removes locks in run_to_completion mode and removes the user call
for setting the mode.  The only user was the poweroff code, but it was easily
converted to use the polling interface.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
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, 2 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ipmi.h b/include/linux/ipmi.h
index c5bd28b69aec..1144b32f5310 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipmi.h
@@ -368,9 +368,8 @@ int ipmi_request_supply_msgs(ipmi_user_t          user,
  * 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.
+ * way.  This is useful if you need to spin waiting for something to
+ * happen in the IPMI driver.
  */
 void ipmi_poll_interface(ipmi_user_t user);
 
@@ -422,12 +421,6 @@ int ipmi_get_maintenance_mode(ipmi_user_t user);
 int ipmi_set_maintenance_mode(ipmi_user_t user, int mode);
 
 /*
- * Allow run-to-completion mode to be set for the interface of
- * a specific user.
- */
-void ipmi_user_set_run_to_completion(ipmi_user_t user, int val);
-
-/*
  * When the user is created, it will not receive IPMI events by
  * default.  The user must set this to TRUE to get incoming events.
  * The first user that sets this to TRUE will receive all events that