Re: [PATCH 4/7] staging: kpc2000: use __func__ in debug messages in core.c

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jun 10 2019 - 03:54:04 EST


On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 09:20:09AM +0200, Simon Sandström wrote:
> On 06/06, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 12:29:13AM +0200, Simon Sandström wrote:
> > >
> > > - dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "kp2000_pcie_probe(pdev = [%p], id = [%p])\n",
> > > - pdev, id);
> > > + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "%s(pdev = [%p], id = [%p])\n",
> > > + __func__, pdev, id);
> >
> > debugging lines that say "called this function!" can all be removed, as
> > we have ftrace in the kernel tree, we can use that instead. I'll take
> > this, but feel free to clean them up as follow-on patches.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Can they be removed even if they print function arguments or other
> variables?

Of course!