Re: [PATCH] warnkill trivia 2/2

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 06:35:12 EST


   From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
   Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 13:37:42 +0200

> BTW who even passes around const atomic_t's? Ie. what
> genrated the warning and made you even edit this to begin with?
   
   fs/reiserfs/buffer2.c, line ~28:
   atomic_t gets the const quality on account of being a member
   of a const struct buffer_head instance.
   
   void wait_buffer_until_released (const struct buffer_head * bh)
   {

Reiserfs is buggy, it means struct buffer_head const * bh

Let's keep the sparc atomic_read() how it is so more bugs
like this can be found.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 07 2002 - 22:00:13 EST