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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The fact is, "volatile" *only* makes things worse. It generates worse 
> code, and never fixes any real bugs. This is a *fact*.

Yes, lets just drop the volatiles now! We need a patch that gets rid of 
them.... Volunteers?