-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Andrew Morton Use relative time, not absolute. Discovered by Jung-Ik (John) Lee . Cc: Jung-Ik (John) Lee Acked-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/