[PATCH 3/6] staging: goldfish: document spinlock usage

Loic Pefferkorn loic at loicp.eu
Wed Sep 3 16:25:28 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 01:13:19PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> 
> This tells the reader nothing. It's good to document locking models but
> 
> - you lock data not code (which is a detail a lot of programmers get wrong
> 			  in th design stage too)
> - you need to document what objects are protected by the lock
> 
> 
> So it should tell the reader what the lock must be held to do
> 
> If you look at the audio code it actually protects the status field and
> status register of the "hardware"

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback, I will send a v2.

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Cheers,
Loïc


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