Re: [PATCH] staging: ks7010: fix spinlock_t definition without comment

Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.outreachy
Message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2403122247530.3229@hadrien>

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024, TaheraFahimi wrote:

> This change ensures adherence to coding style guidelines.
>
> Signed-off-by: TaheraFahimi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h
> index 3e9a91b5131c..94322e2ea304 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h
> @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ struct ks_wlan_private {
>  	char nick[IW_ESSID_MAX_SIZE + 1];
>
>  	spinlock_t multicast_spin;
> -
> +	/* lock for synchronize access to device read operation */

How did you come up with this comment?  I'm not sure that it reflects very
well the function in which the lock is used.

julia

>  	spinlock_t dev_read_lock;
>  	wait_queue_head_t devread_wait;
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
>
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