Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:20:55 +0100 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt |
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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/
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