linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 01/13] counter: 104-quad-8: Describe member 'lock' in 'quad8'

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Date:   Mon, 9 Aug 2021 20:26:37 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com, kernel@...gutronix.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 01/13] counter: 104-quad-8: Describe member 'lock'
 in 'quad8'

On Mon,  9 Aug 2021 21:37:26 +0900
William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com> wrote:

> This adds a kernel-doc comment line describing the 'lock' member of the
> 'quad8' structure.
> 
> Acked-by: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
Initially I was confused as to when Syed had acked a new patch, but
then realised you have pulled it out of the later spinlock conversion
patch which Syed had indeed acked, so fair enough.

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and (unlike yesterday)
pushed out as testing for 0-day to poke at it.
> ---
>  drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c b/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c
> index 5283ff128c17..0caa60537b14 100644
> --- a/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c
> +++ b/drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(base, "ACCES 104-QUAD-8 base addresses");
>  
>  /**
>   * struct quad8 - device private data structure
> + * @lock:		lock to prevent clobbering device states during R/W ops
>   * @counter:		instance of the counter_device
>   * @fck_prescaler:	array of filter clock prescaler configurations
>   * @preset:		array of preset values