On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote:
[...]
> > would leave a comment that is correct, but less useful (I'd expect any
> > kernel hacker to know that u64 is non-atomic on many platforms).
>
>
> If kernel hackers are expected to already know it's non-atomic we could
> remove the whole comment.
>
> The comment regarding "volatile" was bogus since "volatile" wouldn't
> help against getting garbage when reading an u64 variable.
Well, it's probably too trivial to argue about anyways - I don't mind much
in either direction.
Tim
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