Re: [PATCH 4/5] staging: bcm2835-audio: bcm2835.h: fix volatile coding style issue

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 15:16 -0500, Nathan Howard wrote:
> Fix checkpatch.pl warning of the form "WARNING: Use of volatile is
> usually wrong: see Documentation/process/volatile-considered-harmful.rst."

Why are you sure the volatile use is not necessary?

> Signed-off-by: Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h
> index 2f9d1c9..08f7ad6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h
> @@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ struct bcm2835_alsa_stream {
>  	struct semaphore buffers_update_sem;
>  	struct semaphore control_sem;
>  	spinlock_t lock;
> -	volatile unsigned int control;
> -	volatile unsigned int status;
> +	unsigned int control;
> +	unsigned int status;
>  
>  	int open;
>  	int running;