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Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 11:30:15 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: bcm_iproc_adc: Use %s and __func__
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:24:50 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 9:27 AM Mugilraj Dhavachelvan
> <dmugil2000@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Change function's name to %s and __func__ to fix checkpatch.pl errors.  
> 
> No, just drop the __func__ completely. First of all, we have a device
> name, and uniqueness of the messages in the driver should guarantee
> easy findings. Second, specific to _dbg() variants, with enabled
> Dynamic Debug it can be chosen at run time!
> 
> I recommend going through all drivers and drop __func__ near to
> dev_dbg() and pr_debug().
> 

Agreed.  Though beware that some maintainers will count this
as noise and get grumpy.

I'm fine with such patches for IIO.

Jonathan