linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/14] scsi: replace remaining __FUNCTION_

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Message-Id: <1204601400.3043.102.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:30:00 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/14] scsi: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:09 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

What on earth is the point of this?

We already have compiler specific files in 

include/linux/compiler-*

Which can be used to #define __FUNCTION__ to whatever the individual
compiler wants.  That way we don't get thousands of lines of churn in
the kernel for no value.

James


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