Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c: checkpatch warning

Al Viro
2017-04-01T03:46:30Z

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 08:36:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 04:32 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:59:19PM -0700, Chewie Lin wrote:
> > > Replace string with formatted arguments in the dev_warn() call. It removes
> > > the checkpatch warning:
> > >
> > > WARNING: Prefer using "%s", __func__ to embedded function names
> []
> > Again, checkpatch warning is badly written
>
> In your opinion, what wording would be better?

MILD SUGGESTION: don't spell the function name out in format strings;
"this_function: foo is %d", n
might be better off as
"%s: foo is %d", __func__, n
in case you ever move it to another function or rename your function.