Re: Incorrect timeout in CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl in 2.5 kernels

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:01:50 EST

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On Sun, Jul 13 2003, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> The CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl passes a struct cdrom_generic_command from
> user space, which contains a timeout field. The timeout is measured in
> jiffies, but the conversion from user to kernel jiffies is missing,
> which makes the timeout 10 times shorter than it should be in 2.5
> kernels on x86. This causes CDRW formatting with cdrwtool to fail. The
> following patch fixes this problem.

Looks fine, applied.

-- Jens Axboe

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