Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757833AbXELHqR (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 03:46:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755547AbXELHqI (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 03:46:08 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46777 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755528AbXELHqH (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 May 2007 03:46:07 -0400 Message-ID: <464570AC.5030108@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:45:48 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jimmy bahuleyan CC: Stefan Richter , Satyam Sharma , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jonathan Corbet , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Stezenbach , Jesper Juhl , Randy Dunlap , Heikki Orsila Subject: Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3 References: <12700.1178905000@lwn.net> <464551D5.2050709@zytor.com> <46455CD9.7010205@zytor.com> <46456B18.9060605@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46456DDE.5070006@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46456DDE.5070006@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 17 jimmy bahuleyan wrote: > i believe, the doc here is pretty unambiguous regarding the fact that > volatile should be avoided. And as Stefan pointed out, anyone who feels > the need to use, must surely _know_ what he is doing & hence is in a > position t make that decision Honestly, the above quoted paragraph states the situation better than any long, complicated document. Jeff - 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/