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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zs: Move to the serial subsystem
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:54:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465D49F3.7010005@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070530011224.bf36d2df.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:03:54 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:

> Hey, you have volatiles and checkpatch.pl didn't complain.  Andy, a
> reference to Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt would suit.
> 
> (That's
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/broken-out/volatile-considered-harmful-take-3.patch)

Added ...

Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
PATCH: XXX.eml:374:
FILE: linux-2.6.22-rc2/drivers/serial/zs.c:131:
+       volatile void __iomem *control = zport->port.membase +

[...]

I will batch up any changes to checkpatch.pl and send you them as a blob
when they get "interesting" if that suits.

-apw

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-30  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-29 13:03 [PATCH] zs: Move to the serial subsystem Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-05-30  8:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-30  9:54   ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2007-05-30 10:09   ` Russell King
2007-05-30 12:06   ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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