Comments on ``Some results on pole-placement and reachability'' (Q1095083)

We present various comments on a question about systems over rings posed in a recent note by \textit{P. K. Sharma} [ibid. 6, 325-328 (1985; Zbl 0575.93033)] proving that a ring R is pole assignable if and only if, for every reachable system (F,G), G contains a rank-one summand of the state space. We also provide a generalization to deal with dynamic feedback.