Re: [PATCH 0904/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Tue,  2 Aug 2016 19:56:46 +0800
Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com> wrote:

> I find that the developers often just specified the numeric value
> when calling a macro which is defined with a parameter for access permission.
> As we know, these numeric value for access permission have had the corresponding macro,
> and that using macro can improve the robustness and readability of the code,
> thus, I suggest replacing the numeric parameter with the macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
> index 8688ad4..56d3671 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static unsigned long devs_no_auto[__MAX_SSID + 1][__DEV_WORDS];
> 
>  static char *no_auto = "";
> 
> -module_param(no_auto, charp, 0444);
> +module_param(no_auto, charp, S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_auto, "list of ccw bus id ranges not to be auto-onlined");
> 
>  static int virtio_ccw_check_autoonline(struct ccw_device *cdev)

NACK. I find 0444 more readable.

<And some general remarks: Your patches are lacking a proper component
prefix and have a rather long list of people on to: ...and sending
1000+ patches to lkml at once is not a very good idea either.>