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

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 22:36 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 10:25:26AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 18:52 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 07:43:42PM +0200, Filip Kolev wrote: 
> > > > 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");
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> > There are quite a lot of these relatively useless function tracing like
> > uses in the kernel:
> > 
> > $ git grep -P '"%s[\.\!]*\\n"\s*,\s*__func__\s*\)' | wc -l
> > 1065
> 
> These are printing other stuff besides just the function name.

No, these are printing _only_ the function name.

> Maybe grep for '", __func__\)'?

No, that wouldn't work as there are many many uses like:

	printk('%s: some string\n", __func__);