Re: [PATCH 2/2]: atomic_t: Remove volatile from atomic_tdefinition

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> It turns out this bad code is a result of us defining atomic_t as a
> volatile int.

Heh. Ok, as you point out in the commit message, I obviously agree with 
this patch. "volatile" on data is evil, with the possible exception of 
"jiffies" type things.

So applied.

		Linus
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