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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: marcin_obara@users.sourceforge.net, tpm@selhorst.net,
	kjhall@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com, debora@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: tpm-correct-tpm-timeouts-to-jiffies-conversion.patch -> 2.6.27
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:22:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080910152258.762e3714.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C84619.8030303@gmail.com>

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:11:37 +0200
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to push
> tpm-correct-tpm-timeouts-to-jiffies-conversion.patch
> (the patch header follows) into 2.6.27, please?

Sure.

> From: Marcin Obara <marcin_obara@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> This patch fixes timeouts conversion to jiffies, by replacing
> msecs_to_jiffies() calls with usecs_to_jiffies().  According to TCG TPM
> Specification Version 1.2 Revision 103 (pages 166, 167) TPM timeouts and
> durations are returned in microseconds (usec) not in miliseconds (msec).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Obara <marcin_obara@users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net>
> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Why?  I wasn't aware that this fixed anything which anyone had observed
(pokes tongue out at the changelog).


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-10 22:11 tpm-correct-tpm-timeouts-to-jiffies-conversion.patch -> 2.6.27 Jiri Slaby
2008-09-10 22:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-09-11 10:03   ` Marcin Obara
2008-09-12  3:10     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-12 15:49       ` Andrew Morton

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