Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 04:20:47 EST


Roland Dreier wrote:
> Commit 4a0df2ef added the following to scripts/checkpatch.pl:
>
> print "Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n";
>
> but Linus's tree has no such file. not sure what the right thing to
> do here is, since I assume we do ultimately want something of the sort
> in Documentation...

That is a little unfortuanate for sure. As Jasper correctly indicates
this file is coming soon to a linus tree near you and things will be
accurate. Otherwise it can be obtained from the current -mm tarball.
It can also be found here on LWN:

http://lwn.net/Articles/234017/

-apw
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