[U-Boot] Checkpatch warnings for "volatile"

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 20:11:14 CEST 2011


On Saturday, October 15, 2011 10:56:54 AM Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Prabhakar Lad,
> 
> In message <CA+V-a8sYRZJDZojEpQ55ZGRZ6--
Niq0ThKVV8e_RtQrRuShE8A at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> > > I've explained this a number of times recently - there are actually
> > > very, very few occasions where "volatile" actually makes sense.
> > > 
> > >      Agreed, but I see a piece of code where virtual address are
> > >      compared.
> >      
> >      For example in arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/davinci/cpu.c
> >      In this function static inline unsigned pll_prediv(unsigned pllbase)
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >      also in this static inline unsigned pll_postdiv(unsigned pllbase)
> >      
> >      Any suggestion on this on how to tackle or let it remain stagnant?
> 
> I cannot see a justification for any of the ""volatile" in this file.
> 
> Of course, all these ugly REG() calls should be converted to proper
> use of I/O accessors.

Definitelly ... but I'm not swiping this one, I have enough mess on my hands 
already ;-)

Cheers


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