Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756126AbXEIIva (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:51:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754546AbXEIIvV (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:51:21 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.TU-Cottbus.De ([141.43.120.68]:32855 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754003AbXEIIvU (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:51:20 -0400 Message-ID: <46418B4D.6030307@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:50:21 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: Satyam Sharma , Andrew Morton , Paul Sokolovsky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, jeremy@goop.org, Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: volatile considered evil References: <516386418.20070501080839@gmail.com> <20070430235642.e576e917.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070508121404.17bd97a6.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070508163452.8b71f682.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070508163452.8b71f682.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 597 Lines: 15 Randy Dunlap wrote: > Add information on the problems with the C-language "volatile" keyword > and why it should not be used (most of the time). I like Jonathan's article http://lwn.net/Articles/233479/ a lot. It puts as much emphasis on the DOs as on the DON'Ts, which I find helpful. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= -=--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/