On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Slawomir Stepien wrote: > Hi all > > There is a "false positive" error reported by checkpatch.pl: > > ERROR: Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions > #272: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c:272: > +static IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF(1, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, > + ade7759_read_8bit, > + ade7759_write_8bit, > + ADE7759_CH1OS); > > ERROR: Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions > #276: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c:276: > +static IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF(2, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO, > + ade7759_read_8bit, > + ade7759_write_8bit, > + ADE7759_CH2OS); > > The same for the file drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7753.c. > > We can see that this macro is matched by the pattern "IIO_DEV_ATTR_[A-Z_]+" from > @mode_permission_funcs in checkpatch.pl. > > My question is: how this should be fixed? Why do you think this is a false-positive? > From what I can say, it's a false positive so the correct way to fix it is to > change the matching pattern: "IIO_DEV_ATTR_(?!CH_OFF)[A-Z_]+". Huh? Provide a patch to show what you are suggesting please. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
