[PATCH 4/5] staging: bcm2835-audio: bcm2835.h: fix volatile coding style issue
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Fri Feb 17 15:04:16 PST 2017
On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 15:16 -0500, Nathan Howard wrote:
> Fix checkpatch.pl warning of the form "WARNING: Use of volatile is
> usually wrong: see Documentation/process/volatile-considered-harmful.rst."
Why are you sure the volatile use is not necessary?
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Howard <adanhawthorn at gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h
> index 2f9d1c9..08f7ad6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835.h
> @@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ struct bcm2835_alsa_stream {
> struct semaphore buffers_update_sem;
> struct semaphore control_sem;
> spinlock_t lock;
> - volatile unsigned int control;
> - volatile unsigned int status;
> + unsigned int control;
> + unsigned int status;
>
> int open;
> int running;
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