Merge tag 'for-linus-5.9-1' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi

Pull IPMI updates from Corey Minyard:
 "Minor cleanups to the IPMI driver for 5.9

  Nothing of any major consequence. Duplicate code, some missing \n's in
  sysfs files, some documentation and comment changes"

* tag 'for-linus-5.9-1' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi:
  ipmi/watchdog: add missing newlines when printing parameters by sysfs
  ipmi: remve duplicate code in __ipmi_bmc_register()
  ipmi: ssif: Remove finished TODO comment about SMBus alert
  Doc: driver-api: ipmi: Add description of alerts_broken module param

Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst

@@ -516,6 +516,7 @@ at module load time (for a module) with::
 	slave_addrs=<addr1>,<addr2>,...
 	tryacpi=[0|1] trydmi=[0|1]
 	[dbg_probe=1]
+	alerts_broken
 
 The addresses are normal I2C addresses.  The adapter is the string
 name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
@@ -537,6 +538,9 @@ The slave_addrs specifies the IPMI address of the local BMC.  This is
 usually 0x20 and the driver defaults to that, but in case it's not, it
 can be specified when the driver starts up.
 
+alerts_broken does not enable SMBus alert for SSIF. Otherwise SMBus
+alert will be enabled on supported hardware.
+
 Discovering the IPMI compliant BMC on the SMBus can cause devices on
 the I2C bus to fail. The SMBus driver writes a "Get Device ID" IPMI
 message as a block write to the I2C bus and waits for a response.

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

@@ -3080,8 +3080,6 @@ static int __ipmi_bmc_register(struct ipmi_smi *intf,
 	rv = sysfs_create_link(&bmc->pdev.dev.kobj, &intf->si_dev->kobj,
 			       intf->my_dev_name);
 	if (rv) {
-		kfree(intf->my_dev_name);
-		intf->my_dev_name = NULL;
 		dev_err(intf->si_dev, "Unable to create symlink to bmc: %d\n",
 			rv);
 		goto out_free_my_dev_name;

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c

@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@
  * and drives the real SSIF state machine.
  */
 
-/*
- * TODO: Figure out how to use SMB alerts.  This will require a new
- * interface into the I2C driver, I believe.
- */
-
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "ipmi_ssif: " fmt
 #define dev_fmt(fmt) "ipmi_ssif: " fmt
 

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c

@@ -232,12 +232,17 @@ static int set_param_str(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
 static int get_param_str(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
 	action_fn fn = (action_fn) kp->arg;
-	int       rv;
+	int rv, len;
 
 	rv = fn(NULL, buffer);
 	if (rv)
 		return rv;
-	return strlen(buffer);
+
+	len = strlen(buffer);
+	buffer[len++] = '\n';
+	buffer[len] = 0;
+
+	return len;
 }