Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:49:38 +0000 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pwm: core: Use octal permission |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 10:35 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > Actually I'd prefer keeping the symbolic name because this is easier to > > grep for. So to convince me a better reason than "checkpatch says so" is > > needed. > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:58:29 -0400 > > The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and > the inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the > symbolic names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them. > Not in the kernel, not in user space. > > Linus
I was waiting for this!
I see your "checkpatch" filter is working well Joe. :)
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