On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 15:27 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 5/23/18 2:05 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > Convert the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents as > > using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more > > readable. > > > > see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945 > > > > Done with automated conversion via: > > $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...> > > > > Miscellanea: > > > > o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate > > o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis > > Honestly, I see this as pretty needless churn. btw: There is currently a mixture of symbolic and octal permissions uses in block and drivers/block ie: 94 octal and 146 symbolic uses. If this is applied, all would become octal.
