The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 5.15-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to stable@vger.kernel.org and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9e8b89926fb87e5625bdde6fd5de2c31fb1d83bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:41:48 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ipmi:ssif: Remove rtc_us_timer

It was cruft left over from older handling of run to completion.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard cminyard@mvista.com

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c index 5a377e86dade..c25c4b1a03ae 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c @@ -241,12 +241,6 @@ struct ssif_info { */ bool req_flags;

- /* - * Used to perform timer operations when run-to-completion - * mode is on. This is a countdown timer. - */ - int rtc_us_timer; - /* Used for sending/receiving data. +1 for the length. */ unsigned char data[IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH + 1]; unsigned int data_len; @@ -530,7 +524,6 @@ static void msg_done_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,

static void start_get(struct ssif_info *ssif_info) { - ssif_info->rtc_us_timer = 0; ssif_info->multi_pos = 0;

ssif_i2c_send(ssif_info, msg_done_handler, I2C_SMBUS_READ, @@ -622,7 +615,6 @@ static void msg_done_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,

flags = ipmi_ssif_lock_cond(ssif_info, &oflags); ssif_info->waiting_alert = true; - ssif_info->rtc_us_timer = SSIF_MSG_USEC; if (!ssif_info->stopping) mod_timer(&ssif_info->retry_timer, jiffies + SSIF_MSG_JIFFIES); @@ -973,7 +965,6 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result, /* Wait a jiffie then request the next message */ ssif_info->waiting_alert = true; ssif_info->retries_left = SSIF_RECV_RETRIES; - ssif_info->rtc_us_timer = SSIF_MSG_PART_USEC; if (!ssif_info->stopping) mod_timer(&ssif_info->retry_timer, jiffies + SSIF_MSG_PART_JIFFIES);