Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 6 authors, 2007-06-01

Re: [PATCH] zs: Move to the serial subsystem

From: Andy Whitcroft <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-30 09:55:07
Also in: linux-serial, lkml

Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:03:54 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki" [off-list ref] wrote:
Hey, you have volatiles and checkpatch.pl didn't complain.  Andy, a
reference to Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt would suit.

(That's
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/broken-out/volatile-considered-harmful-take-3.patch)
Added ...

Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
PATCH: XXX.eml:374:
FILE: linux-2.6.22-rc2/drivers/serial/zs.c:131:
+       volatile void __iomem *control = zport->port.membase +

[...]

I will batch up any changes to checkpatch.pl and send you them as a blob
when they get "interesting" if that suits.

-apw
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