Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across allarchitectures

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 22:18:47 EST


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:

> > Do we have a consensus here? (hoping against hope, probably :-)
>
> I can certainly agree with this.

I agree too.

> But I have to say that I still don't know of a single place
> where one would actually use the volatile variant.

I suspect that what you say is true after we have looked at all callers.


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