Re: [PATCH] mISDN cleanup user interface

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:51 +0200, Karsten Keil wrote:
> > Are you later intending to use the bitmap to mark them as busy/free?
> 
> Yes exactely, and this was the reason why the original code (which used one u_long
> only as channelmap) already used the bit operators, since for a channel allocator
> you should be atomic, but since we are now allow 127 channels we need proper
> locking for the busy/free map anyways and so we do not need atomic operation
> here.

OK, that makes sense then. Your latest patch looks good in that case.

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dwmw2

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