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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 V2] mac80211: add last beacon time in scan list
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> +                     time_diff = jiffies - bss->last_update > mid_range ?
>> +                             jiffies - bss->last_update :
>> +                             bss->last_update - jiffies;
>
> That's pretty hairy.  Do we really lack a function to calculate time
> difference?

what about elapsed_jiffies() in iwl-helpers.h ?...
should be moved to a generic place (include/linux/jiffies.h) so that
other users can access it.