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DateThu, 6 Jul 2006 21:32:38 +0200 (MEST)
FromJan Engelhardt <>
SubjectRe: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'
>> Any other use of "volatile" is almost certainly a bug, or just useless. >>That's not just a theoretical notion, btw. We had _tons_ of these kinds of 
>"volatile"s in the original old networking code. They were _all_ wrong. 
>Every single one.>$ find linux-2.6.17 -type f -iname '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 grep 
volatile | wc -l
13948
Tough job.


Jan Engelhardt
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