From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756124AbYIJWXr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751633AbYIJWXi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:23:38 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49400 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751508AbYIJWXh (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:23:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:22:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jiri Slaby 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 Message-Id: <20080910152258.762e3714.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <48C84619.8030303@gmail.com> References: <48C84619.8030303@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:11:37 +0200 Jiri Slaby 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 > > 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 > Cc: Marcel Selhorst > Cc: Kylene Jo Hall > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Why? I wasn't aware that this fixed anything which anyone had observed (pokes tongue out at the changelog).