Re: [PATCH] Staging: greybus: Fix spinlock_t definition without comment

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On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 03:00:46PM -0500, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote:
> Fix spinlock_t definition without comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/greybus/connection.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/connection.h b/drivers/staging/greybus/connection.h
> index 5ca3befc0636..0aedd246e94a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/connection.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/connection.h
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct gb_connection {
>  	unsigned long			flags;
>  
>  	struct mutex			mutex;
> -	spinlock_t			lock;
> +	spinlock_t			lock; /* Protect structure fields */
>  	enum gb_connection_state	state;

What does the mutex do then?  Why can't we just use the spinlock for
everything?

I did glance at the code and it wasn't immediately obvious to me.

regards,
dan carpenter

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