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Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:03:47 +0100
From:   Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bsg: use pr_debug instead of hand craftet macros
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 06:53:18PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 23:12 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-01-23 at 04:45 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Perhaps the email subject could be improved to describe
> > > the new macro and as well, this macro, without a pr_fmt
> > > define somewhat above it loses the __func__ output too.
> > 
> > Hmm ... I thought that the pr_debug() output can be configured to include
> > the function name (__func__)? From
> 
> Exactly right.
> 
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.html:
> 
> which is what I wrote when I said use +f.
> 
> It's just nice to mention these changes in the
> commit message.

Sorry Joe but this slowly approaches the bikeshedding area. Why should I
duplicate the dynamic debug howto?

This was literally a drive-by patch I did while riding on the subway to the
office which was indented to ease debugging problems in the field for our (and
other) support engineers (and they are usually well aware of the +f switch).

Byte,
	Johannes
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