RE: [PATCH] Staging: visorbus: Fix coding style warning from checkpatch.pl.

From: Kershner, David A
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 16:38:25 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quytelda Kahja [mailto:quytelda@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 7:32 PM
> To: Kershner, David A <David.Kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sell, Timothy C <Timothy.Sell@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> Binder, David Anthony <David.Binder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Quytelda
> Kahja <quytelda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] Staging: visorbus: Fix coding style warning from
> checkpatch.pl.
>
> Replace the literal function name "create_bus_instance" with the format
> specifier "%s" so it can be dynamically filled by the __func__ macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I can't get this to apply to Greg's staging-next branch. It appears to be missing
at least patch:

commit 9e78fd35d staging: unisys: visorbus: renamed functions like *_bus_instance
to match driver namespace

Please update and send again.

Thanks,
David Kershner

> ---
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> index a692561c81c8..b6caa7a98692 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ create_bus_instance(struct visor_device *dev)
> err_debugfs_dir:
> debugfs_remove_recursive(dev->debugfs_dir);
> kfree(hdr_info);
> - dev_err(&dev->device, "create_bus_instance failed: %d\n", err);
> + dev_err(&dev->device, "%s failed: %d\n", __func__, err);
> return err;
> }
>
> --
> 2.13.2