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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	speakup@linux-speakup.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	MugilRaj <dmugil2000@gmail.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] taging: speakup: remove volatile
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 19:25:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522172531.va2hi6jqog3a6473@function> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162676bb69044efadd31daa9ea49fc6fb9664297.camel@perches.com>

Joe Perches, le ven. 22 mai 2020 10:22:03 -0700, a ecrit:
> > Put another way: I don't think putting any hint here would help, on the
> > contrary, somebody has to really look at what protection is needed,
> > without getting influenced by rules-of-thumb.
> 
> checkpatch newbies/robots will submit this change again otherwise.

Ah, ok, right.

I don't think removing volatiles is a thing for newbies, 

> Comment wording can always be improved.

I'd then suggest

/* TODO: determine what proper synchronization "volatile" should be
 * replaced with.  */

Samuel
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-22 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-22  9:16 [PATCH] taging: speakup: remove volatile MugilRaj
2020-05-22  9:21 ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-22  9:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-22 10:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-05-22 16:36   ` Joe Perches
2020-05-22 17:13     ` Samuel Thibault
2020-05-22 17:22       ` Joe Perches
2020-05-22 17:25         ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2020-05-22 17:50       ` Dan Carpenter

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