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Message-ID: <55085084.4080204@broadcom.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:04:20 +0100
From:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
CC:	Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@...adcom.com>,
	Daniel Kim <dekim@...adcom.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	<brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: cfg80211: use msecs_to_jiffies for time conversion

On 03/17/15 13:06, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" is technically
> OK but msecs_to_jiffies(val) is the cleaner solution and handles all
> corner cases correctly. This is a minor API consolidation only and
> should make things more readable.
>
> Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig + CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m
>
> Patch is agianst 4.0-rc4 (localversion-next is -next-20150317)

It applies to wireless-drivers-next/master as well so

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire<hofrat@...dl.org>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
> index 9b805c9..1996dc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
> @@ -1110,7 +1110,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_escan(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct brcmf_cfg80211_vif *vif,
>
>   	/* Arm scan timeout timer */
>   	mod_timer(&cfg->escan_timeout, jiffies +
> -			WL_ESCAN_TIMER_INTERVAL_MS * HZ / 1000);
> +		  msecs_to_jiffies(WL_ESCAN_TIMER_INTERVAL_MS));
>
>   	return 0;
>

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