Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S969339AbXEICT0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 22:19:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754787AbXEICTQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 22:19:16 -0400 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:60388 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753978AbXEICTQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 22:19:16 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1903 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 08 May 2007 22:19:16 EDT To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Paul Sokolovsky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] doc: volatile considered evil From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2007 12:14:04 PDT." <20070508121404.17bd97a6.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:47:31 -0600 Message-ID: <16987.1178675251@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 25 Randy Dunlap wrote: > Here are some 'volatile' comments from Linus, extracted from > several emails in at least 2 threads. > > If this is close to useful, we can add it to Documentation/. I just took a shot at turning this into something more like a normal document: http://lwn.net/Articles/233479/ Comments welcome. If people think it suits the need I'll happily make a version which moves from the LWN style to Documentation/ and send it in. Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet / LWN.net / corbet@lwn.net - 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/