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

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:38:41 -0700

On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 10:52 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> > This is something that needs to be reviewed at the entire EDAC core (and likely
> > at the drivers).
> 
> Looks like a job for a newbie to get her/his feet wet with kernel work.

Looks to me more like a lazy maintainer/developer who doesn't
want to bother with a few minutes work.