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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Char: cyclades, remove volatiles
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:28:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46174825.4050509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070406171406.317ea28a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton napsal(a):
> On Wed,  4 Apr 2007 23:45:38 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> cyclades, remove volatiles
> 
> The other changes seem uncontroversial, but this one has the potential
> to change runtime behaviour.  And cyclades.c is a driver which some people
> actually use ;)

Well, don't you know anybody with Z card, please?

But all volatiles were
- used locally (loop variables, nonptr count read once from HW), so that nothing
has a chance to change them in the memory.
- accessed by readX/writeX (pointers to mapped HW) and that should be OK

> Have these changes been runtime-tested?

Yes this time :), I have at least PCI Y cyclades card within reach to test.

thanks,
-- 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-07  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 21:44 [PATCH 1/5] Char: cyclades, remove PAUSE Jiri Slaby
2007-04-04 21:45 ` [PATCH 2/5] Char: cyclades, cy_readX/writeX cleanup Jiri Slaby
2007-04-04 21:45 ` [PATCH 3/5] Char: cyclades, timer cleanup Jiri Slaby
2007-04-04 21:45 ` [PATCH 4/5] Char: cyclades, remove volatiles Jiri Slaby
2007-04-07  0:14   ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-07  7:28     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2007-04-09 14:20       ` John Stoffel
2007-04-10 11:43         ` Jiri Slaby
2007-04-10 15:03           ` John Stoffel
2007-04-04 21:45 ` [PATCH 5/5] Char: cyclades, remove useless casts Jiri Slaby

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