On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/14/2012 06:34 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>> Qualifier 'volatile' is not useful for applications, it's too strict
>> for single threaded code but does not give the real atomicity guarantees
>> needed for multithreaded code.
>>
>> Drop them and now useless casts.
>>
>
>> -static inline void set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
>> +static inline void set_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
>>  {
>>       unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
>> -     unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
>> +        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
>
> The diff looks weird, because you are converting TAB to space on your
> affected lines but not cleaning up the neighboring lines.  Is it worth a
> preliminary patch to whitespace-sanitize things?

That is close to reformatting, this is the usual way these days.

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