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

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Message-ID: <467A34E7.1050107@shadowen.org>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:20:55 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

Roland Dreier 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 is a little unfortuanate for sure.  As Jasper correctly indicates
this file is coming soon to a linus tree near you and things will be
accurate.  Otherwise it can be obtained from the current -mm tarball.
It can also be found here on LWN:

	http://lwn.net/Articles/234017/

-apw
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