Description: This function allows the HPI User to configure a timeout for how long to wait before the default auto-extraction policy is invoked. This function accepts a parameter instructing the resource to impose a delay before performing its default hot swap policy for auto-extraction. The parameter may be set to SAHPI_TIMEOUT_IMMEDIATE to direct the resource to proceed immediately to auto-extraction, or to SAHPI_TIMEOUT_BLOCK to prevent auto-extraction from ever occurring on a resource. If the parameter is set to another value, then it defines the number of nanoseconds between the time a hot swap event with hpiHotSwapState = extractionPending(5) is generated and the time that the auto-extraction policy will be invoked for the resource. If, during this time period, a hpiHotSwapPolicyCancel function call is processed, the timer will be stopped, and the auto-extraction policy will not be invoked.

Once the auto-extraction process begins, the HPI User will not be allowed to take control of the extraction process; hence, the timeout should be set appropriately to allow for this condition.

Note that the timeout period begins when the hot swap event with hpiHotSwapState = extractionPending(4) is initially generated.