Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: iio: meter: Add the comment for mutex definition

Dan Carpenter
2017-05-09T07:47:08Z

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:00:37PM -0400, Harinath Nampally wrote:
> This patch fixes below checkpatch.pl warning:
> CHECK: struct mutex definition without comment
>
> Signed-off-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7753.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7753.c b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7753.c
> index b71fbd3..cffe6bf 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7753.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7753.c
> @@ -78,12 +78,13 @@
> /**
> * struct ade7753_state - device instance specific data
> * @us: actual spi_device
> + * @buf_lock: mutex to protect tx and rx
> * @tx: transmit buffer
> * @rx: receive buffer
> - * @buf_lock: mutex to protect tx and rx
> **/
> struct ade7753_state {
> struct spi_device *us;
> + /* mutex to protect tx and rx */

Not aligned. We don't need two duplicate comments anyway.

> struct mutex buf_lock;

regards,
dan carpenter