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Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 09:06:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 48/79] ieee802154: at86rf230: use __func__ macro for
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:06:13PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 09:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch.??If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 8a81388ec27c4c0adbdecd20e67bb5f411ab46b2 ]
> > 
> > Instead of having the function name hard-coded (it might change and we
> > forgot to update them in the debug output) we can use __func__ instead
> > and also shorter the line so we do not need to break it. Also fix an
> > extra blank line while being here.
> > Found by checkpatch.
> [...]
> 
> This is a perfectly good fix for upstream, but really not important
> enough for stable.  Sasha, please retrain your patch selector.

For some reason I thought this was a dependancy for a later patch, but
that seems to not be correct.  Was the real reason later removed from
the series?

greg k-h