On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:26:40AM +0000, Yang, Shunyong wrote: > 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) > && It is a warning and a preference. And I don't prefer changing code for no benefit. Sorry but I am not considering this change -- ~Vinod -- 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