Re: [PATCH 1/5] net: emaclite: Use __func__ instead of hardcoded name

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 18:37:46 EST


On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 00:36 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Radhey Shyam Pandey
> <radhey.shyam.pandey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Switch hardcoded function name with a reference to __func__ making
> > the code more maintainable. Address below checkpatch warning:
> >
> > WARNING: Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using 'xemaclite_mdio_read',
> > this function's name, in a string
> > + "xemaclite_mdio_read(phy_id=%i, reg=%x) == %x\n",
> >
> > WARNING: Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using 'xemaclite_mdio_write',
> > this function's name, in a string
> > + "xemaclite_mdio_write(phy_id=%i, reg=%x, val=%x)\n",
> >
>
> For dev_dbg() the __func__ should be completely dropped away.

Not really the same.

dev_dbg without CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG does not have
the ability to prefix __func__.