Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:22:58 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: tpm-correct-tpm-timeouts-to-jiffies-conversion.patch -> 2.6.27 |
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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).
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