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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: pi433: add comment to rx_lock mutex definition
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 10:36:26PM +1300, Paulo Miguel Almeida wrote:
> Checkpatch reports: CHECK: struct mutex definition without comment.
> Fix this by documenting what rx_mutex struct is used for in pi433 driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
> index 29bd37669059..aa0ecb3788c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ struct pi433_device {
> u32 rx_bytes_to_drop;
> u32 rx_bytes_dropped;
> unsigned int rx_position;
> + /* rx read and config operations can only be served one at the time */

What exactly does this mean? What is this protecting? This comment
doesn't seem to be explaining much :(

thanks,

greg k-h

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