> - I removed the useless "volatile" stuff from the non-atomic versions > of the bit operations. This is the correct thing to do ... but I wonder how we can validate that there are no callers that were depending on the extra ordering that the old volatile versions were providing. Clearly any such callers are broken ... but finding them the hard way (by executing the kernel and waiting to see if something stange happens) is going to be unpleasant. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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