Proposal: Unify printing the function name in panic messages()

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, February 11, 2013 4:20:00 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Whoa, whoa.
> 
> Are you seriously trying to argue that having a consistent file:line
> isn't a really helpful addition to panic messages?
> 
> Yes, you can get it via the crash IP and use of binutils on the kernel
> image. But with modules? You have to fire up kgdb, and that requires a
> dump _and_ a kgdb that matches the kernel image in question.
> 
> Even if you don't add it to the panic message, having that information
> passed into panic() so it can print out a file:line would be great.

He isn't adding that, he's adding __func__, and it isn't a fool proof
replacement.

-- 
John Baldwin