From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754831AbXFUIUq (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:20:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753086AbXFUIUg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:20:36 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:3276 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbXFUIUf (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:20:35 -0400 Message-ID: <467A34E7.1050107@shadowen.org> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:20:55 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public-key Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland Dreier wrote: > Commit 4a0df2ef added the following to scripts/checkpatch.pl: > > print "Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n"; > > but Linus's tree has no such file. not sure what the right thing to > do here is, since I assume we do ultimately want something of the sort > in Documentation... That is a little unfortuanate for sure. As Jasper correctly indicates this file is coming soon to a linus tree near you and things will be accurate. Otherwise it can be obtained from the current -mm tarball. It can also be found here on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/234017/ -apw