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Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use time_after for time comparison

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use time_after for time comparison
Date 2017-05-08 23:30 +0200
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From: Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon,  8 May 2017 18:58:02 +0200

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m-usb.h b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m-usb.h
> index 649ecad..6fc941c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m-usb.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m-usb.h
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static inline int edc_inc(struct edc *edc, u16 max_err, u16 timeframe)
>  	unsigned long now;
>  
>  	now = jiffies;
> -	if (now - edc->timestart > timeframe) {
> +	if (time_after(now - edc->timestart, (unsigned long)timeframe)) {

This is far from correct.

time_after() compares two "jiffies" timestamp values.  The second
argument here is not a jiffies timestamp value.

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[PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use time_after for time comparison Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use  time_after for time comparison David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-05-08 23:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use time_after  for time comparison Girish Moodalbail <girish.moodalbail@oracle.com> - 2017-05-09 01:30 +0200
  RE: [PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use time_after for time comparison Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 02:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wimax: i2400m: i2400m-usb: Use  time_after for time comparison David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-05-09 15:50 +0200

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