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Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c: checkpatch
 warning
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Chewie Lin <linsh@oregonstate.edu>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, forest@alittletooquiet.net, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:36:22 -0700
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On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 04:32 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:59:19PM -0700, Chewie Lin wrote:
> > Replace string with formatted arguments in the dev_warn() call. It removes
> > the checkpatch warning:
> > 
> > 	WARNING: Prefer using "%s", __func__ to embedded function names
[]
> Again, checkpatch warning is badly written

In your opinion, what wording would be better?