Hi, Vinod On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 10:18 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 06:44:40PM +0800, Yang Shunyong wrote: > > > > Current coding style prefers octal permissions values. This patch > > changes symbolic permissions to octal values. > Is this preference documented anywhere? > When using symbolic permissions like "S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR". The checkpatch.pl will output some warnings to suggest to use octal values. I quote following lines from checkpatch.pl, # check for uses of S_<PERMS> that could be octal for readability ... if (WARN("SYMBOLIC_PERMS", "Symbolic permissions '$oval' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '$octal'.\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/$val/$octal/; } Thanks. Shunyong -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html