Re: [PATCH 10/15] ASoC: omap-mcbsp: use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants

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Hi

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:37:04 +0200
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW for read-write attributes.  This simplifies the
> source code, improves readbility, and reduces the chance of
> inconsistencies.
> 
...
> 
> - DEVICE_ATTR(x, \(0644\|S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR\), x_show, x_store);
> + DEVICE_ATTR_RW(x);

I'm not so sure does this improve readability. 644 is pretty obvious but for DEVICE_ATTR_RW() one has to dive into include/linux/device.h and include/linux/sysfs.h to see for what users it grants the write access.

-- 
Jarkko
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