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staging: comedi: pcmuio: document the spinlock_t variables

Add some comments about the two spinlock_t variables in the private
data. Also, add come comments for the functions that do not need to
lock/unlock the spinlock.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
H Hartley Sweeten 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 4 2
      drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c

+ 4 - 2
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmuio.c

@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ static const struct pcmuio_board pcmuio_boards[] = {
 };
 
 struct pcmuio_asic {
-	spinlock_t pagelock;
-	spinlock_t spinlock;
+	spinlock_t pagelock;	/* protects the page registers */
+	spinlock_t spinlock;	/* protects member variables */
 	int enabled_mask;
 	int active;
 	int stop_count;
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ static void pcmuio_reset(struct comedi_device *dev)
 	}
 }
 
+/* chip->spinlock is already locked */
 static void pcmuio_stop_intr(struct comedi_device *dev,
 			     struct comedi_subdevice *s)
 {
@@ -403,6 +404,7 @@ static irqreturn_t pcmuio_interrupt(int irq, void *d)
 	return handled ? IRQ_HANDLED : IRQ_NONE;
 }
 
+/* chip->spinlock is already locked */
 static int pcmuio_start_intr(struct comedi_device *dev,
 			     struct comedi_subdevice *s)
 {