Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, J.A. Magallón wrote:
> 
> I think you are mixing apples and oranges. Using volatile to control o-o-o
> memory accesses is sure wrong.

.. and there _is_ no right way to use it, except the two I've already 
mentioned. 

Why is that so hard to accept?

The fact is, "volatile" was designed in a different era, and tough, it's 
not one of the better parts of the C language.

Get over it.

			Linus

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