Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Drop cargo-culted comment

Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-11-27T19:44:51Z

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 1:14 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 12:05:08AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 3:40 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 12:25:47AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >
> > > > -/* gpio_lock prevents conflicts during gpio_desc[] table updates.
> > > > - * While any GPIO is requested, its gpio_chip is not removable;
> > > > - * each GPIO's "requested" flag serves as a lock and refcount.
> > > > - */
> > >
> > > Perhaps provide a comment as to what the gpio_lock DOES cover?
> >
> > Normally yes, but Bartosz just said he is going to replace this spinlock
> > with a mutex so it's better if he adds it then.
> >
>
> If that is happening soon then leave it to Bart to change both the
> comment and lock.
>
> If not, then we now have an undocumented lock. If the coverage of the
> spinlock and proposed mutex are the same why not describe what the lock
> covers now? Then Bart wont have to update the comment.
>
> Cheers,
> Kent.
>

Yeah, I think we should maybe leave some temporary FIXME comment once
the mutex patch is in saying this must go as well but it'll take more
time because the problem is quite tricky.

Bart