linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: atomisp: ov2722: replace hardcoded function name

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Message-ID: <dcdda829-89d6-badd-4f22-72d95d24e9e3@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jan 2021 19:43:42 +0200
From:   Filip Kolev <fil.kolev@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: atomisp: ov2722: replace hardcoded function name



On 06-Jan-21 09:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 10:29:18PM +0200, Filip Kolev wrote:
>> There is a debug message using hardcoded function name instead of the
>> __func__ macro. Replace it.
>>
>> Report from checkpatch.pl on the file:
>>
>> WARNING: Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using 'ov2722_remove', this function's name, in a string
>> +	dev_dbg(&client->dev, "ov2722_remove...\n");
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Filip Kolev <fil.kolev@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2722.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2722.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2722.c
>> index eecefcd734d0e..21d6bc62d452a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2722.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2722.c
>> @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ static int ov2722_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
>>   	struct v4l2_subdev *sd = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
>>   	struct ov2722_device *dev = to_ov2722_sensor(sd);
>>   
>> -	dev_dbg(&client->dev, "ov2722_remove...\n");
>> +	dev_dbg(&client->dev, "%s...\n", __func__);
> 
> dev_dbg() provides the function name already, and this is just a "trace"
> call, and ftrace should be used instead, so the whole line should be
> removed entirely.

Thank you for the review!

How do I go about this? Do I amend the patch and re-send as v2 or create 
a new patch entirely?
Newbie here, doing this as part of the Eudyptula challenge, so I very 
much appreciate everyone's patience.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>