On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, Joe Perches wrote: > mm/*.c files use symbolic and octal styles for permissions. > > Using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more > readable. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945 > > Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions. > > Done using > $ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace mm/*.c > and some typing. > > Before: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l > 44 > After: $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l > 86 > > Miscellanea: > > o Whitespace neatening around these conversions. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> although extending some of these lines to be >80 characters also improves the readability imo.
