[GIT PULL] Pull request for 4.10 for IPMI

[GIT PULL] Pull request for 4.10 for IPMI

[Corey Minyard]

The following changes since commit 9c953d639c2fb97e4e96f7398acbf4b675713b76:

   Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 
(2016-10-27 10:05:31 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

   git://git.code.sf.net/p/openipmi/linux-ipmi tags/for-linus-4.10

for you to fetch changes up to 070cbd1d42aa0e359c9957cd73c2a529dec62047:

   ipmi: create hardware-independent softdep for ipmi_devintf 
(2016-12-12 14:26:29 -0600)

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Various small fixes for IPMI.  Cleanups in the documentation and
convertion printk() to pr_xxx() and removal of an unused module
parameter.  Some small bug fixes and enhancements.

This also adds a post softdep from the IPMI core module to the
IPMI device interface.  Many people have complained that the device
interface isn't automatically avaiable when IPMI is loaded.  I don't
want to make the device interface mandatory, though, plenty of people
use IPMI internally (like with ACPI) and don't need a device interface
or the added possible security entry.  A softdep should make it work
"out of the box" but allow people to not have it if they don't want it.

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Corey Minyard (7):
       ipmi: Periodically check for events, not messages
       ipmi_ssif: Remove an unused module parameter
       ipmi: Update documentation
       Move platform device creation earlier in the initialization
       ipmi_si: Clean up printks
       ipmi: Pick up slave address from SMBIOS on an ACPI device
       ipmi: Fix sequence number handling

Martin Wilck (1):
       ipmi: create hardware-independent softdep for ipmi_devintf

  Documentation/IPMI.txt              |  57 ++++++-----
  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c    |   1 -
  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c |  10 +-
  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c    | 190 
++++++++++++++++++------------------
  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c       |  37 +++++--
  5 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 130 deletions(-)