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

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Message-ID: <9a8748490706201403v1cee4467m78d143db86be02fc@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:03:44 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

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 :-)

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