linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: volatile considered evil

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Message-Id: <20070509085253.5935f90f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 08:52:53 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, jeremy@...p.org,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: volatile considered evil

On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:50:21 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote:

> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Add information on the problems with the C-language "volatile" keyword
> > and why it should not be used (most of the time).
> 
> I like Jonathan's article http://lwn.net/Articles/233479/ a lot.
> It puts as much emphasis on the DOs as on the DON'Ts, which I find helpful.

Yep.  I expect to drop my patch in favor of Jon's writeup.

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~Randy
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