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From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:52:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH script] hwmon: Use octal not symbolic permissions
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On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 08:44 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 04:48 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 03:28 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 03/27/2018 12:35 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 23:33 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > Since the hwmon subsystem has been labeled as both "obsolete" and "obscure",
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> > In what sense do you mean hwmon is obsolete?
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> _I_ did not say it was obsolete. It was described as obsolete by a maintainer
> of a different subsystem at a conference a couple of years ago. If I wasn't too
> lazy, I could try to find the presentation, but I don't see the point.

Then it seems you were just being obscure on purpose.
You wrote obsolete without context.

cheers, Joe