Shouldn't you do something more along the lines of:

printk("%s/%s: This is a warning from a driver\n",
    __FILE__,__FUNCTION__);

... or is this out of standard with patches?

On 4 Mar 2005 at 10:42, walter harms wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> the psmouse driver reports the name "psmouse.c" with error messages. 
> Since there is a psmouse.o but no .c this is confusing. (at least to 
> me). this patch changes the hardcoded names to __FUNCTION__.
> 
> btw: do anyone know how to restart the synaptics driver ? it stops 
> working sometimes.
> 
> (because of tab/space problems this patch is also attached).
> 
> drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c
> 
> replace wrong filenames in error messages
> 
> Signed-off-by: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.9/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c.bak	2005-03-03 
> 22:18:49.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c	2005-03-03 
> 22:38:57.000000000 +0100
> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
> 
>   	if (flags & (SERIO_PARITY|SERIO_TIMEOUT)) {
>   		if (psmouse->state == PSMOUSE_ACTIVATED)
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: bad data from KBC -%s%s\n",
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: bad data from KBC -%s%s\n",__FUNCTION__,
>   				flags & SERIO_TIMEOUT ? " timeout" : "",
>   				flags & SERIO_PARITY ? " bad parity" : "");
>   		psmouse->nak = 1;
> @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
> 
>   	if (psmouse->state == PSMOUSE_ACTIVATED &&
>   	    psmouse->pktcnt && time_after(jiffies, psmouse->last + HZ/2)) {
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: %s at %s lost synchronization, 
> throwing %d bytes away.\n",
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s at %s lost synchronization, throwing %d 
> bytes away.\n",__FUNCTION__,
>   		       psmouse->name, psmouse->phys, psmouse->pktcnt);
>   		psmouse->pktcnt = 0;
>   	}
> @@ -239,13 +239,13 @@
> 
>   	switch (rc) {
>   		case PSMOUSE_BAD_DATA:
> -			printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: %s at %s lost sync at byte %d\n",
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s at %s lost sync at byte %d\n",__FUNCTION__,
>   				psmouse->name, psmouse->phys, psmouse->pktcnt);
>   			psmouse->pktcnt = 0;
> 
>   			if (++psmouse->out_of_sync == psmouse_resetafter) {
>   				psmouse->state = PSMOUSE_IGNORE;
> -				printk(KERN_NOTICE "psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request\n");
> +				printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: issuing reconnect request\n",__FUNCTION__);
>   				serio_reconnect(psmouse->serio);
>   			}
>   			break;
> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
>   			psmouse->pktcnt = 0;
>   			if (psmouse->out_of_sync) {
>   				psmouse->out_of_sync = 0;
> -				printk(KERN_NOTICE "psmouse.c: %s at %s - driver resynched.\n",
> +				printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: %s at %s - driver resynched.\n",__FUNCTION__,
>   					psmouse->name, psmouse->phys);
>   			}
>   			break;
> @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@
>    */
> 
>   	if (psmouse_command(psmouse, NULL, PSMOUSE_CMD_RESET_DIS))
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on %s\n", 
> psmouse->serio->phys);
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Failed to reset mouse on %s\n",__FUNCTION__, 
> psmouse->serio->phys);
> 
>   	return 0;
>   }
> @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@
>   static void psmouse_activate(struct psmouse *psmouse)
>   {
>   	if (psmouse_command(psmouse, NULL, PSMOUSE_CMD_ENABLE))
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on %s\n", 
> psmouse->serio->phys);
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Failed to enable mouse on 
> %s\n",__FUNCTION__, psmouse->serio->phys);
> 
>   	psmouse_set_state(psmouse, PSMOUSE_ACTIVATED);
>   }
> @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
>   static void psmouse_deactivate(struct psmouse *psmouse)
>   {
>   	if (psmouse_command(psmouse, NULL, PSMOUSE_CMD_DISABLE))
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: Failed to deactivate mouse on %s\n", 
> psmouse->serio->phys);
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Failed to deactivate mouse on 
> %s\n",__FUNCTION__, psmouse->serio->phys);
> 
>   	psmouse_set_state(psmouse, PSMOUSE_CMD_MODE);
>   }
> @@ -814,7 +814,8 @@
>   		 * Nothing to be done here, serio core will detect that
>   		 * the driver set serio->child and will register it for us.
>   		 */
> -		printk(KERN_INFO "serio: %s port at %s\n", serio->child->name, 
> psmouse->phys);
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "%s: serio: %s port at %s\n",__FUNCTION__, 
> serio->child->name, psmouse->phys);
> +
>   	}
> 
>   	psmouse_activate(psmouse);
> @@ -834,7 +835,7 @@
>   	int rc = -1;
> 
>   	if (!drv || !psmouse) {
> -		printk(KERN_DEBUG "psmouse: reconnect request, but serio is 
> disconnected, ignoring...\n");
> +		printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: reconnect request, but serio is disconnected, 
> ignoring...\n",__FUNCTION__);
>   		return -1;
>   	}
> 
> @@ -896,7 +897,7 @@
>   		else if (!strcmp(psmouse_proto, "exps"))
>   			psmouse_max_proto = PSMOUSE_IMEX;
>   		else
> -			printk(KERN_ERR "psmouse: unknown protocol type '%s'\n", psmouse_proto);
> +			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: unknown protocol type '%s'\n", __FUNCTION__, 
> psmouse_proto);
>   	}
>   }
> 
>