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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:52:19 +0530
From: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] staging: emxx_udc: Add comment for spinlock_t definition.
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A spinlock can have only two type of values, locked and unlocked. Here
lock is a variable of type spinlock_t. Its values are manipulated using
spinlock functions. Spinlock protect and guarantee exclusive access, to
critical region.

In this patch, comment is added for spinlock_t definition, to fix the
following checkpatch issue:

CHECK: spinlock_t definition without comment

Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Modified commit message.

 drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h b/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h
index 789bfb9..78c08e1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ struct nbu2ss_udc {
 	struct usb_gadget_driver *driver;
 	struct platform_device *pdev;
 	struct device *dev;
-	spinlock_t lock;
+	spinlock_t lock; /* Protects nbu2ss_udc structure fields */
 	struct completion		*pdone;
 
 	enum ep0_state			ep0state;
-- 
2.9.3