Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758048AbXEIPuG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 11:50:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755742AbXEIPt4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 11:49:56 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:11555 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755185AbXEIPtz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 11:49:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 08:52:53 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Stefan Richter 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 Message-Id: <20070509085253.5935f90f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <46418B4D.6030307@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <516386418.20070501080839@gmail.com> <20070430235642.e576e917.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070508121404.17bd97a6.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070508163452.8b71f682.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <46418B4D.6030307@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 19 On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:50:21 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote: > 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. Yep. I expect to drop my patch in favor of Jon's writeup. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - 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/