Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl refers to non-existent Documentation/Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 17:04:13 EST


On 20/06/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> 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 document is in the -mm kernel currently. As soon as it hits
mainline from there checkpatch.pl will be right :-)

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