On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:06:03AM -0800, Sinclair Yeh wrote:
> Hi Oyvind,
>
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
> At this moment, I don't really see a benefit one way or anther, so
> I am going to stick with the macro version for now, changing the one
> remaining module_param_named() you mentioned to using the macros to
> keep things consistent.
>
> If one day we have a paramter with a long ORing of the macros, then
> we can revisit this decision.
Actually, now that I see checkpatch.pl has been modified to prefer
octal permissions, I think your suggestion is better. So I'll
just take your patch instead.
thanks!
Sinclair
>
> Sinclair
>
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 07:17:27PM +0100, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
> > This reverts commit 2d8e60e8b0742b7a5cddc806fe38bb81ee876c33.
> >
> > The commit belongs to the series of 1285 patches sent to LKML on
> > 2016-08-02, it changes the representation of file permissions from the
> > octal value "0600" to "S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR".
> >
> > The general consensus was that the changes does not increase
> > readability, quite the opposite; 0600 is easier to parse mentally than
> > S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR.
> >
> > It also causes argument inconsistency, due to commit 04319d89fbec
> > ("drm/vmwgfx: Add an option to change assumed FB bpp") that added
> > another call to module_param_named() where the permissions are written
> > as 0600.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > This is a resend of the patch originally sent on 2017-01-16. The only
> > difference from v1 is an improved commit message with some more details.
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 10 +++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
> > index 18061a4bc2f2..e8ae3dc476d1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
> > @@ -241,15 +241,15 @@ static int vmwgfx_pm_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
> > void *ptr);
> >
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_fbdev, "Enable vmwgfx fbdev");
> > -module_param_named(enable_fbdev, enable_fbdev, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param_named(enable_fbdev, enable_fbdev, int, 0600);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_dma_api, "Force using the DMA API for TTM pages");
> > -module_param_named(force_dma_api, vmw_force_iommu, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param_named(force_dma_api, vmw_force_iommu, int, 0600);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(restrict_iommu, "Try to limit IOMMU usage for TTM pages");
> > -module_param_named(restrict_iommu, vmw_restrict_iommu, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param_named(restrict_iommu, vmw_restrict_iommu, int, 0600);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_coherent, "Force coherent TTM pages");
> > -module_param_named(force_coherent, vmw_force_coherent, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param_named(force_coherent, vmw_force_coherent, int, 0600);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(restrict_dma_mask, "Restrict DMA mask to 44 bits with IOMMU");
> > -module_param_named(restrict_dma_mask, vmw_restrict_dma_mask, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param_named(restrict_dma_mask, vmw_restrict_dma_mask, int, 0600);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(assume_16bpp, "Assume 16-bpp when filtering modes");
> > module_param_named(assume_16bpp, vmw_assume_16bpp, int, 0600);
> >
> > --
> > 2.12.0.rc0
> >
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