Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757545AbXEITEZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 15:04:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756081AbXEITES (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 15:04:18 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]:31466 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754129AbXEITER (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 15:04:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jyTZXuyzJNo4BV+gGsFoNucD2WR//B7Pn2qNc1un74r/tREtZaBpXKQIRHO3AqRGycXCXuXdUPefOin3jX+nuH0uUz78W3SAvQTfKGYN1sIrlNIzuWD9HsL41rGPV28emYi5gFDnmn3SOaxvLfVFcuu4tzGLSEBYRAv7Ai4dq7g= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 00:34:15 +0530 From: "Satyam Sharma" To: "Randy Dunlap" Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: volatile considered evil Cc: "Stefan Richter" , "Andrew Morton" , "Paul Sokolovsky" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, jeremy@goop.org, "Jonathan Corbet" In-Reply-To: <20070509085253.5935f90f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> <20070509085253.5935f90f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 20 On 5/9/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: > 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. Yeah, that article was both comprehensive and to-the-point indeed. I was trying my hand at re-organizing your original mail, but Jon's version is nicer. - 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/