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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why does test_bit() take a volatile addr?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:43:14 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwn4xrv9.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379885847.1974.45@driftwood>

Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
> On 09/15/2013 11:08:35 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Predates git, does anyone remember the rationale?
>
> Depends which git: http://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/ :)

Not useful.  See Geert's more helpful response.

Cheers,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16  4:08 Why does test_bit() take a volatile addr? Rusty Russell
2013-09-16  6:53 ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-09-16  7:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-16  8:02     ` Stephen Rothwell
2013-09-16  8:47       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-16  8:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-16  8:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-16  8:40 ` Oliver Neukum
2013-09-16  8:44   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-09-16  8:49     ` Oliver Neukum
2013-09-16 11:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-22 21:37 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-23  1:13   ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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