Re: [PATCH bluetooth-next 4/4] mac802154: use atomic ops for sequence incrementation

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On 05/22/2015 12:30 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 22/05/15 10:59, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
>> On 05/22/2015 10:57 AM, Alexander Aring wrote:
>>> This patch will use atomic operations for sequence number incrementation
>>> while MAC header generation. Upper layers like af_802154 or 6LoWPAN
>>> could call this function in a parallel context while generating 802.15.4
>>> MAC header before queuing into wpan interfaces transmit queue.
>> what about swapping patch 3 and 4?
> 
> To avoid having problems during a git bisect later one? E.g. having the 
> lock removed but no atomic in place?

Yes, that's what I was thinking about. I don't know the code to tell if
this is an issue here.

Marc

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