linux-kernel - Re: please pull from the trivial tree

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Date:	Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:08:18 +0100 (CET)
From:	Tim Schmielau <tim@...sik3.uni-rostock.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please pull from the trivial tree

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
[...]
> > would leave a comment that is correct, but less useful (I'd expect any 
> > kernel hacker to know that u64 is non-atomic on many platforms).
> 
> 
> If kernel hackers are expected to already know it's non-atomic we could 
> remove the whole comment.
> 
> The comment regarding "volatile" was bogus since "volatile" wouldn't 
> help against getting garbage when reading an u64 variable.

Well, it's probably too trivial to argue about anyways - I don't mind much 
in either direction.

Tim
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