use mutex in vtimer_sleep

this change prevents a race condition in case of
short sleep time

Fixes: https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/issues/550
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Merge pull request #562 from mehlis/author-spelling

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Merge pull request #551 from mehlis/vtimer-mutex

use mutex in vtimer_sleep
Allow IEEE 802.15.4 addressing types for transceiver

IEEE 802.15.4 has two addressing modes: 16-bit short and the device's
EUI-64. Currently RIOT supports only sending of packets with 16-bit
short addresses via the transceiver interface. This patch allows at
least for the radio chips that support IEEE 802.15.4 to let the
application/upper layer decide which addressing mode to use.

Upper layer implementation will be implemented in follow-up PR to #460