Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759558AbXEIWgR (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 18:36:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759411AbXEIWf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 18:35:59 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]:24522 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759413AbXEIWf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 18:35:58 -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=ayRH/f/EZBraPoHM5LeHd9bgSvkkI4v5rZqxDF2QUO+gICQxGpbD7KNoe+py+bsL85bCRLtDtaGMM+TYa2qmVONuFKufhnbP0DGKXmg/dPzLxfPZnfKaSZjScwzZtu4oGRAOeWTQ3+1rcbi+2iAJ06KSqH5Z2ngyyFif3H7v9aE= Message-ID: <7b69d1470705091535k87a377bi3921c68c5c3f6b2a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 17:35:57 -0500 From: "Scott Preece" To: "Jonathan Corbet" Subject: Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful" document Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Randy Dunlap" In-Reply-To: <25493.1178744744@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <25493.1178744744@lwn.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 17 On 5/9/07, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > OK, here's an updated version of the volatile document - as a plain text > file this time. It drops a new file in Documentation/, but might it be > better as an addition to CodingStyle? > ... --- I think the size of this file is OK as a separate file, but much too big for CodingStyle. It would be good to also write a pithy paragraph to go into CodingStyle to convey the rule and point at this file. scott - 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/