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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, greg@kroah.com, bunk@stusta.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ADI Blackfin patch for kernel 2.6.14
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:11:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051115221146.4487657f.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489ecd0c0511151944r1552bae3oed5ee88a49795482@mail.gmail.com>

Luke wrote:
> > Cow.  You know that volatile in-kernel is basically always wrong?
> >
>   I really don't know that...  Could you refer me to any document or
> posts talking about it? thank you!

Start with:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/6/139

> Date	Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:02:18 -0800 (PST)
> From	Linus Torvalds <>
> Subject	Re: [PATCH] fix get_jiffies_64 to work on voyager
> 
> [ This is a big rant against using "volatile" on data structures. Feel 
>   free to ignore it, but the fact is, I'm right. You should never EVER use
>   "volatile" on a data structure. ]

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                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-01  9:28 ADI Blackfin patch for kernel 2.6.14 Luke Yang
2005-11-01 16:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-02  7:06   ` Luke Yang
2005-11-04  4:59     ` Luke Yang
2005-11-04 23:06       ` Greg KH
2005-11-07  6:58         ` Luke Yang
2005-11-07 16:59           ` Greg KH
2005-11-08  7:50             ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 11:26               ` Luke Yang
2005-11-12 11:58                 ` Andrey Volkov
2005-11-14  7:22                   ` Luke Yang
2005-11-12 21:47                 ` Greg KH
2005-11-13 14:22                   ` Bernd Schmidt
2005-11-14  7:34                   ` Luke Yang
2005-11-14  7:52                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15  2:40                       ` Luke Yang
2005-11-15  4:14                         ` Greg KH
2005-11-14 12:53                     ` Alan Cox
2005-11-16  3:44               ` Luke Yang
2005-11-16  6:11                 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-11-16  6:34                   ` Luke Yang
2005-11-16 13:42               ` Bernd Schmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-14 20:53 Robin Getz
2005-11-15 19:11 ` Matthieu CASTET
2005-11-17  5:38 Robin Getz

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