On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 08:50:59AM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote: >> This patch removes the following warning: "Use of >> volatile is usually wrong: see >> Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt". >> There were two variables defined in this manner. >> > > Normally if someone uses volatile like this it means they wanted the > variable protected by a lock. The changelog should have said > something about how the variable is protected againsts races. > > In this case the first ->AppCtrlQueueLen is only used when the > ->RxAppControlQueuelock samaphor is held. The other variable gets > removed in the [PATCH 7/7] so it doesn't matter. > > So the patch is fine.
Yeah, good point; I confirmed the variable was indeed protected by proper locking. I will be sure to be more explicit in the changelog next time. Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
