Remove the paragraph about writing to the Free Software Foundation's
mailing address. The FSF has changed addresses in the past, and may do
so again. In 2021 this is not useful, let's rather have a bit less
boilerplate at the start of source files.
Change-Id: I5050285e75cf120407a1d883e99b3c4bcae8ffd7
Provide a common implementation of use counting that supports naming each user
as well as counting more than just one use per user, depending on the rules the
caller implies.
In osmo-msc, we were originally using a simple int counter to see whether a
connection is still in use or should be discarded. For clarity, we later added
names to each user in the form of a bitmask of flags, to figure out exactly
which users are still active: for logging and to debug double get / double put
bugs. This however is still not adequate, since there may be more than one CM
Service Request pending. Also, it is a specialized implementation that is not
re-usable.
With this generalized implementation, we can:
- fix the problem of inadequate counting of multiple concurrent CM Service
Requests (more than one use count per user category),
- directly use arbitrary names for uses like __func__ or "foo" (no need to
define enums and value_string[]s),
- re-use the same code for e.g. vlr_subscr and get fairly detailed VLR
susbscriber usage logging for free.
Change-Id: Ife31e6798b4e728a23913179e346552a7dd338c0
Oliver Smith
Harald Welte
Neels Hofmeyr