[PATCH 10/23] ipmi: Add a note about the pretimeout callback

[Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>]

You can't do IPMI calls from the callback, it's called with locks
held.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
---
 include/linux/ipmi.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ipmi.h b/include/linux/ipmi.h
index 2f74dd90c271..27cd5980bb27 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipmi.h
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ struct ipmi_user_hndl {
 
 	/*
 	 * Called when the interface detects a watchdog pre-timeout.  If
-	 * this is NULL, it will be ignored for the user.
+	 * this is NULL, it will be ignored for the user.  Note that you
+	 * can't do any IPMI calls from here, it's called with locks held.
 	 */
 	void (*ipmi_watchdog_pretimeout)(void *handler_data);
 
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