>> Any other use of "volatile" is almost certainly a bug, or just useless. > >That's not just a theoretical notion, btw. We had _tons_ of these kinds of >"volatile"s in the original old networking code. They were _all_ wrong. >Every single one. > $ find linux-2.6.17 -type f -iname '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 grep volatile | wc -l 13948 Tough job. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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