On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 05:53:44PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Personally I find this to be *less* readable, but maybe that's just me. It's just you :-) checkpatch should complain nowadays about non-octal permissions. It is documented here Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst. IIRC it's added after Linus' rant on them. But nonetheless thanks for the review! > On Wed, 11 Sept 2024 at 17:51, Andy Shevchenko > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Octal permissions are preferred over the symbolics ones > > for readbility. This ceases warning message pointed by checkpatch. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko