Re: [PATCH] "volatile considered harmful", take 3

[Stefan Richter]

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> Coming back to the document, we do need to document / find
> consensus on the "preferred" way to do similar business in the
> kernel, and my opinion as far as that is concerned is to shun
> volatile wherever possible (which includes the case originally
> discussed above).

I too recommend that volatile-considered-harmful.txt is not watered down
by an ever growing "but if" list.  If anybody knows what he does, he
still can program in a deviating way --- provided that he leaves a brief
comment in the code, telling why it is possible and beneficial to use
the volatile qualifier in this special case.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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