linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 23:25:18 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Johannes Stezenbach" <js@...uxtv.org>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Heikki Orsila" <shdl@...alwe.fi>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	"jimmy bahuleyan" <knight.camelot@...il.com>,
	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3

On 11/05/07, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> Here's another version of the volatile document.  Once again, I've tried
> to address all of the comments.  There haven't really been any recent
> comments addressing the correctness of the document; people have been
> more concerned with how it's expressed.  I'm glad to see files in
> Documentation/ held to a high standard of writing, but, unless somebody
> has a factual issue this time around I would like to declare Mission
> Accomplished and move on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
> ---
>
> Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
>

Looks good to me.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>


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