On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually, it doesn't really matter. Linux assumes that reads and writes > to "unsigned long" are always atomic against each other (i.e. you get > either the old or the new value) and that's all you care about here -- > this never needs anything like atomic_inc/dec etc. Excellent point, thank you. -- Nathaniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html