linux-kernel - Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:05:59 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	rdreier@...co.com, apw@...dowen.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent
 Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:03:44 +0200 "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com> wrote:
> On 20/06/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:
> > Commit 4a0df2ef added the following to scripts/checkpatch.pl:
> >
> >     print "Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n";
> >
> > but Linus's tree has no such file.  not sure what the right thing to
> > do here is, since I assume we do ultimately want something of the sort
> > in Documentation...
> >
> 
> That document is in the -mm kernel currently. As soon as it hits
> mainline from there checkpatch.pl will be right :-)
> 

oops.  I queued volatile-considered-harmful-take-3.patch for 2.6.22, thanks.
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