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

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

Sure.

quoted text
> 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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