-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Use relative time, not absolute. Discovered by Jung-Ik (John) Lee
<[email protected]>.
Cc: Jung-Ik (John) Lee <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.20.13.orig/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
+++ linux-2.6.20.13/drivers/acpi/thermal.c
@@ -758,7 +758,8 @@ static void acpi_thermal_check(void *dat
del_timer(&(tz->timer));
} else {
if (timer_pending(&(tz->timer)))
- mod_timer(&(tz->timer), (HZ * sleep_time) / 1000);
+ mod_timer(&(tz->timer),
+ jiffies + (HZ * sleep_time) / 1000);
else {
tz->timer.data = (unsigned long)tz;
tz->timer.function = acpi_thermal_run;
--