linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Staging: most: use __func_

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Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 03:30:44 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Chandra Annamaneni <chandra627@...il.com>
Cc:     christian.gromm@...rochip.com, andrey.shvetsov@....de,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Staging: most: use __func__ instead of the function
 name

On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 00:40 -0700, Chandra Annamaneni wrote:
> Third Reminder. Please review.

Patience.

> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017, chandrasekhar annamaneni wrote:
> > Second reminder, please review.
[]
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Chandra Annamaneni <chandra627@...il.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >       Change video.c to use %s, __func__ instead of function names.
> >       Warnings flagged by checkpatch.pl
[]
> >       diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/aim-v4l2/video.c
[]
> >       @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static int aim_vdev_open(struct file *filp)
> >               struct most_video_dev *mdev = video_drvdata(filp);
> >               struct aim_fh *fh;
> > 
> >       -       v4l2_info(&mdev->v4l2_dev, "aim_vdev_open()\n");
> >       +       v4l2_info(&mdev->v4l2_dev, "%s()\n", __func__);

More likely all of these should be deleted
as these seem to be function tracing logging
and ftrace works well.

see: Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt