Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: greybus: uart: fix style issues

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 12:08:35AM +0530, Shubham Chakraborty wrote:
> Fix checkpatch.pl warnings by adding comments to mutex and spinlocks,
> and fixing alignment to match open parenthesis.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shubham Chakraborty <chakrabortyshubham66@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c
> index 7d060b4cd33d..1d2c4ef70865 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/uart.c
> @@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ struct gb_tty {
>  	unsigned int minor;
>  	unsigned char clocal;
>  	bool disconnected;
> -	spinlock_t read_lock;
> -	spinlock_t write_lock;
> +	spinlock_t read_lock;		/* protects read operations */
> +	spinlock_t write_lock;		/* protects write operations */
>  	struct async_icount iocount;
>  	struct async_icount oldcount;
>  	wait_queue_head_t wioctl;
> -	struct mutex mutex;
> +	struct mutex mutex;		/* serializes port operations */
>  	u8 ctrlin;	/* input control lines */
>  	u8 ctrlout;	/* output control lines */
>  	struct gb_uart_set_line_coding_request line_coding;
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static int gb_uart_wait_for_all_credits(struct gb_tty *gb_tty)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	ret = wait_for_completion_timeout(&gb_tty->credits_complete,
> -			msecs_to_jiffies(GB_UART_CREDIT_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MSEC));
> +					  msecs_to_jiffies(GB_UART_CREDIT_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MSEC));
>  	if (!ret) {
>  		dev_err(&gb_tty->gbphy_dev->dev,
>  			"time out waiting for credits\n");
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 

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