"volatile considered harmful"
authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:16:41 +0000 (17:16 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:59:11 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
commit0faa45480261a52323fe88bfab6aea1e8eb87b65
treebccf0b743fdb226fb615f5afc8a6cb473fff5a30
parent4c18a325645bf98850ca84037fff05de1836e785
"volatile considered harmful"

Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt [new file with mode: 0644]