Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936492AbWLANIV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:08:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936491AbWLANIU (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:08:20 -0500 Received: from [139.30.44.16] ([139.30.44.16]:63031 "EHLO gockel.physik3.uni-rostock.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936492AbWLANIU (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:08:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:08:18 +0100 (CET) From: Tim Schmielau To: Adrian Bunk cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: please pull from the trivial tree In-Reply-To: <20061201125504.GC11084@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20061201113740.GP11084@stusta.de> <20061201125504.GC11084@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 848 Lines: 23 On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: [...] > > would leave a comment that is correct, but less useful (I'd expect any > > kernel hacker to know that u64 is non-atomic on many platforms). > > > If kernel hackers are expected to already know it's non-atomic we could > remove the whole comment. > > The comment regarding "volatile" was bogus since "volatile" wouldn't > help against getting garbage when reading an u64 variable. Well, it's probably too trivial to argue about anyways - I don't mind much in either direction. Tim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/