On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:17:28PM +0200, Menna Mahmoud wrote: > Hi Mentors, > > > I am Menna, Outreachy applicant and I work on my clean-up patches. > > Is it Okay to work on this error reported by checkpatch script? > > > drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c > -------------------------------------- > ERROR: Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions > #256: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9832.c:256: > +static IIO_DEV_ATTR_FREQ(0, 1, 0200, NULL, ad9832_write, AD9832_FREQ1HM); What??? Is it complaining about the 0200? That is octal. Why is checkpatch complaining about this? Am I wrong? Maybe I am misreading. I could investigate, but I am leaving that task to you. It may be that checkpatch has a problem and you can fix that instead. regards, dan carpenter
