Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] staging: greybus: added comment to mutex declaration in fw-management.c
From: Rachit Dhar
Date: Sun Feb 15 2026 - 23:53:06 EST
On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 7:08 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How do you "know" that this is what it is for?
>
> Fixing this type of checkpatch warning is hard, and requires lots of
> documentation and checking. If you didn't write the code originally, I
> wouldn't worry about this type of issue at all, it's best for new code,
> not existing code.
I did go through the code manually, but understand that it might be
deserving of more extensive checking and documentation to make
such a conclusion.
This patch can be dropped. Let me know if another patch series is
needed without this patch included in it.
Thanks,
Rachit