linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: dyna_pci10xx: fixed check patch warnings about memory barrier comments

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Message-ID: <58581D7D.1030309@mev.co.uk>
Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:48:45 +0000
From:   Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:     devendra sharma <devendra.sharma9091@...il.com>
CC:     hsweeten@...ionengravers.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: dyna_pci10xx: fixed check patch warnings
 about memory barrier comments

On 19/12/2016 14:36, devendra sharma wrote:
> Added comments before memory barrier
>
> Signed-off-by: Devendra Sharma <devendra.sharma9091@...il.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dyna_pci10xx.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dyna_pci10xx.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dyna_pci10xx.c
> index c9eb26f..c3b5236 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dyna_pci10xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dyna_pci10xx.c
> @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static int dyna_pci10xx_insn_write_ao(struct comedi_device *dev,
>
>   	mutex_lock(&devpriv->mutex);
>   	for (n = 0; n < insn->n; n++) {
> +		/*multi-processor memory barrier*/
>   		smp_mb();

Thanks for the effort, but these comments add no useful information and 
serve only to silence the checkpatch warnings. Also, there is no space 
after the '/*' and before the '*/'.

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