From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtprelay0152.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.152]:60303 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752026AbeC0Qwz (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:52:55 -0400 Message-ID: <1522169571.12357.81.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH script] hwmon: Use octal not symbolic permissions From: Joe Perches To: Guenter Roeck , Jean Delvare Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, patches@opensource.cirrus.com Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:52:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <9e908abe-2dc8-dbba-97f9-d9614fa4b199@roeck-us.net> References: <1522096136.12357.21.camel@perches.com> <9b112651-d0cf-5f3b-b643-3328028a95cd@roeck-us.net> <1522136107.12357.58.camel@perches.com> <5ec8703b-2979-7a1d-fbc3-bd528d7a5e29@roeck-us.net> <1522151285.12357.78.camel@perches.com> <9e908abe-2dc8-dbba-97f9-d9614fa4b199@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-hwmon-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org 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", [] > > In what sense do you mean hwmon is obsolete? [] > _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