From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:38:19 +1000

quoted text
> Except for the braindead volatile that gets stuck on the bitops pointer.
> 
> Last time I complained about this, a lot of noise was made and I think
> Linus wanted it to stay around so we could pass volatile pointers to
> bitops & co without warnings. I say we should just remove the volatile
> and kill any callers that might warn...

Ho hum... :)

Another way to approach that, and keep the volatile, is to have
a "test_flags()" interface that takes the bit mask of values
you want to test for cases where you know it is a single word
flags value.

The downside is that this kind of interface is easy to use
incorrectly especially when accesses to the same flags use
bot test_bit() and test_flags().
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