linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: most: video: use __func_

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Date:   Sun, 6 May 2018 18:54:19 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: most: video: use __func__ instead of function
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On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:51:05PM +0530, Abdun Nihaal wrote:
> This fixes the following checkpatch warning in video.c:
> 
> WARNING: Prefer using '\"%s...\", __func__' to using function's name
> in a string
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/most/video/video.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c b/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c
> index 9d7e747519d9..c85e289275a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/video/video.c
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static int comp_vdev_open(struct file *filp)
>  	struct most_video_dev *mdev = video_drvdata(filp);
>  	struct comp_fh *fh;
>  
> -	v4l2_info(&mdev->v4l2_dev, "comp_vdev_open()\n");
> +	v4l2_info(&mdev->v4l2_dev, "%s()\n", __func__);

All of these should just be deleted.  It's debugging code and if someone
needs/wants to see tracing, they can use ftrace.

Please just drop them all.

thanks,

greg k-h