… > The driver is for amplifiers aw88166 of Awinic Technology … You may occasionally put more than 57 characters into text lines of such a change description. See also: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.14-rc6#n94 … > +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/aw88166.c > @@ -0,0 +1,1933 @@ … > +static void aw88166_startup_work(struct work_struct *work) > +{ … > + mutex_lock(&aw88166->lock); > + aw88166_start_pa(aw88166); > + mutex_unlock(&aw88166->lock); > +} … Under which circumstances would you become interested to apply a statement like “guard(mutex)(&aw88166->lock);”? https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.14-rc6/source/include/linux/mutex.h#L201 Regards, Markus