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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ejka@imfi.kspu.ru, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@coreworks.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH][MIPS][7/7] AR7: ethernet
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:41:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906174102.cc5a59e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709070121.42629.technoboy85@gmail.com>

> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 01:21:41 +0200 Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The patch introduces vast number of volatile structure fields.  Please see
> > Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt.
> 
> Removing them and the kernel hangs at module load

They can't just be removed.  Please see the document.  There are I/O APIs
which, if properly used, make volatile unneeded.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200708201704.11529.technoboy85@gmail.com>
2007-09-06 15:34 ` [PATCH][MIPS][7/7] AR7: ethernet Matteo Croce
2007-09-06 22:30   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-06 23:04     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-06 23:21     ` Matteo Croce
2007-09-07  0:41       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-07 23:04       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-07  7:10     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
     [not found] <200709080143.12345.technoboy85@gmail.com>
2007-09-08  0:23 ` Matteo Croce
2007-09-12 16:50   ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-13  1:42     ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-09-13 11:35       ` Ralf Baechle
     [not found] <200709201728.10866.technoboy85@gmail.com>
2007-09-20 16:13 ` Matteo Croce
2007-09-29  5:39   ` Jeff Garzik

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