[PATCH upstream for stable 8/8]staging: vt6656: 64bit fixes: vCommandTimerWait change calculation of timer.

2012-12-27 Thread Malcolm Priestley
upstream commit 70e227790d4ee4590023d8041a3485f8053593fc Tested on kernel 2.6.35, 3.0, 3.2, 3.5 3.7 staging: vt6656: 64bit fixes: vCommandTimerWait change calculation of timer. The timer appears to run too fast/race on 64 bit systems. Using msecs_to_jiffies seems to cause a deadlock

Re: [PATCH upstream for stable 8/8]staging: vt6656: 64bit fixes: vCommandTimerWait change calculation of timer.

2012-12-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 13:25 +, Malcolm Priestley wrote: upstream commit 70e227790d4ee4590023d8041a3485f8053593fc Tested on kernel 2.6.35, 3.0, 3.2, 3.5 3.7 staging: vt6656: 64bit fixes: vCommandTimerWait change calculation of timer. The timer appears to run too fast/race on 64