linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 48/79] ieee802154: at86rf230: use __func_

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Message-ID: <1536696373.3024.148.camel@codethink.co.uk>
Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:06:13 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 48/79] ieee802154: at86rf230: use __func__ macro for
 debug messages

On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 09:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 8a81388ec27c4c0adbdecd20e67bb5f411ab46b2 ]
> 
> Instead of having the function name hard-coded (it might change and we
> forgot to update them in the debug output) we can use __func__ instead
> and also shorter the line so we do not need to break it. Also fix an
> extra blank line while being here.
> Found by checkpatch.
[...]

This is a perfectly good fix for upstream, but really not important
enough for stable.  Sasha, please retrain your patch selector.

Ben.

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