linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging:rtl8192e Replace function names by using __func_

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Date:   Thu, 07 Jun 2018 11:36:59 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Janani Sankara Babu <jananis37@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     johannes.berg@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        keescook@...omium.org, Rene.Hickersberger@....at,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging:rtl8192e Replace function names by using
 __func__

On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 23:29 -0400, Janani Sankara Babu wrote:
> This patch is created to solve the warning shown by checkpatch script
> Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using ', this function's name,
> in a string
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c
[]
> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *rtllib_ADDBA(struct rtllib_device *ieee, u8 *Dst,
>  	}
> 
>  #ifdef VERBOSE_DEBUG
> -	print_hex_dump_bytes("rtllib_ADDBA(): ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, skb->data,
> +	print_hex_dump_bytes("%s(): ", __func__, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, skb->data,
>  			     skb->len);

You didn't compile this with VERBOSE_DEBUG enabled.

You are adding arguments to a function that takes
a fixed number of arguments.

checkpatch is mindless.

Please don't mindlessly do what it says, just try
to improve the code readability where it's unclear
and especially try to find and fix logic defects.