Re: [PATCH 4/8] Staging: hv: vmbus: Fix checkpatch warnings

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 23 2011 - 19:29:26 EST


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:44:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Fix checkpatch warnings in hv.c
>
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/hv/hv.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/hv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv.c
> index e733173..14e6315 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv.c
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static u64 do_hypercall(u64 control, void *input, void *output)
> u64 hv_status = 0;
> u64 input_address = (input) ? virt_to_phys(input) : 0;
> u64 output_address = (output) ? virt_to_phys(output) : 0;
> - volatile void *hypercall_page = hv_context.hypercall_page;
> + void *hypercall_page = hv_context.hypercall_page;

Are you sure? This was just someone being foolish? No other reason
someone tried to use volatile here?

greg k-h
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