Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: fix checkpatch error for spinlock

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Dec 11 2022 - 06:33:44 EST


On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:06:04PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Dalvin Aiguobas wrote:
> > Checkpatch Styleproblem fixed by adding comment.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dalvin <pharcodra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
> > index 0611e37df6ac..ad117d570bb6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
> > @@ -1171,6 +1171,7 @@ struct hfa384x_usbctlx {
> > };
> >
> > struct hfa384x_usbctlxq {
> > + /* lock: Protect structure fields */

Also, does this comment really make sense? To properly document a lock
takes a bit more text, if you read this would it help out in
understanding the code any?

thanks,

greg k-h