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

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue May 9 07:46:18 UTC 2017


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 at 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



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