From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Friesen),
andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli), jdike@karaya.com (Jeff Dike),
user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net (user-mode-linux-user),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel),
jh@suse.cz (Jan Hubicka)
Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:13:17 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15Oot3-0007eD-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107231552000.7916-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> from "Linus Torvalds" at Jul 23, 2001 03:53:38 PM
> PS. This has come up before. The old pre-Alan networking code had
> "volatile" on just about every single network data structure. Every damn
> single one of them was a bug. Without exception.
With due respect to Fred and Ross most of them were there because the
gcc 2.4.5 compiler was buggy.
Nowdays we still have some volatile users - notably jiffies, and one or two
of them make sense, but not many
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-23 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-23 5:08 user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7 Jeff Dike
2001-07-23 15:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 15:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 16:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 16:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 16:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 18:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 20:15 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-23 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 3:45 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-24 15:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 15:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-24 16:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 16:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-24 16:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 17:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 18:07 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-07-23 20:44 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-23 21:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 21:50 ` Richard Gooch
2001-07-23 22:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 13:20 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-23 22:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 17:50 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-23 23:47 ` Richard Gooch
2001-07-24 0:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-24 9:02 ` Jan Hubicka
2001-07-24 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-25 22:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-25 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-25 23:37 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-26 18:28 ` Jan Hubicka
2001-07-26 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-23 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 23:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-07-23 20:25 ` Jeff Dike
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2001-07-23 20:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-23 21:14 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-25 19:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-25 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-25 19:03 James W. Lake
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