Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: uart: add comments to locks and fix alignment

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 12:11:04AM +0530, Rahul Joshi wrote:
> The spinlock_t and struct mutex members in struct gb_tty lack
> comments describing what they protect, which is required by the
> kernel coding style.
> 
> Also fix the alignment of the wait_for_completion_timeout() call
> in gb_uart_wait_for_all_credits() to match the open parenthesis.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Joshi <rj5547884@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c
> index 7d060b4cd33d..52a84a68049c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c
> @@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ struct gb_tty {
>  	unsigned int minor;
>  	unsigned char clocal;
>  	bool disconnected;
> -	spinlock_t read_lock;
> -	spinlock_t write_lock;
> +	spinlock_t read_lock;	/* protects iocount and oldcount */
> +	spinlock_t write_lock;	/* protects write_fifo and credits */


https://lore.kernel.org/all/aaFdxqxEUzZFVIqQ@stanley.mountain/

How on earth could you have come up with the exact same words here
that someone else did?  It feels like too large of a coincidence.

regards,
dan carpenter