Re: [RFC/PATCH] doc: volatile considered evil

[Jeff Garzik]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> No, David means that "asm volatile (...)" is meaningful and OK to use.

In a driver?  Highly unlikey it is OK.  In a filesystem?  Even more 
unlikely it is OK to use.

The set of circumstances where 'volatile' is acceptable is very limited.

You will see it used properly in the definitions of writel(), for 
example.  But most drivers using 'volatile' are likely bugs.

	Jeff


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