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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:45:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <464570AC.5030108@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46456DDE.5070006@gmail.com>

jimmy bahuleyan wrote:
> i believe, the doc here is pretty unambiguous regarding the fact that
> volatile should be avoided. And as Stefan pointed out, anyone who feels
> the need to use, must surely _know_ what he is doing & hence is in a
> position t make that decision

Honestly, the above quoted paragraph states the situation better than 
any long, complicated document.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-12  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-11 17:36 [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3 Jonathan Corbet
2007-05-11 21:25 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-05-12  3:21 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-12  4:29   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-12  5:34   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12  5:41     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12  6:15     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-12  6:21       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12  7:02         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-12  7:13           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12  7:28             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-12  7:53             ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-12 11:51               ` Heikki Orsila
2007-05-12 18:06               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-12  7:22           ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-12  7:33             ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-05-12  7:45               ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-12 19:17         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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     [not found] ` <8jQt5-7As-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <8jSuQ-28J-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <8jT7y-39x-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-05-13  0:00       ` Bodo Eggert
2007-05-14  3:37         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-17 23:51           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-05-18  3:13             ` Satyam Sharma

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