[PATCH EDACv16 1/2] edac: Change internal representation to work with layers

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 12:11 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 29-04-2012 11:25, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
> > Em 28-04-2012 05:52, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:07:38PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >>> Yes. This is a common issue at the EDAC core: on several places, it calls the
> >>> edac debug macros (DEBUGF0...DEBUGF4) passing a __func__ as an argument, while
> >>> the debug macros already handles that. I suspect that, in the past, the __func__
> >>> were not at the macros, but some patch added it there, and forgot to fix the
> >>> occurrences of its call.
> >> The patch that added it is d357cbb445208 and you reviewed it.
> > And you wrote the patch that caused it.

And Boris should have also written the follow-on patches that
removed most/all of the debugfX and __func__ uses.

> > A single patch fixing this everywhere at drivers/edac is better and clearer than adding 
> > an unrelated fix on this patch. This is already complex enough to add more unrelated
> > things there.
> > 
> > Also, a simple perl/coccinelle script can replace all such __func__ occurrences 
> > on one shot.

You make it sound simple, but it'd be a pretty complicated
cocci script.  Some of the changes would have to be inspected
or changed by hand in any case.

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> Most of the issues can be solved with the above script-based patch. 
> 
> There are still 171 places (12 places at the core, the rest are on the drivers)
> that will require a more sophisticated patch or that requires a manual fix.
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> From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at redhat.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:59:14 -0300
> Subject: [PATCH] edac: Don't add __func__ or __FILE__ for debugf[0-9] msgs

Thanks Mauro, you shouldn't have had to do this.