Re: [PATCH] pwm: core: Use octal permission

Lee Jones
2020-11-17T18:12:39Z

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Soham Biswas wrote:

> Fixed Warning.

Which warning does this fix?

> Replaced symbolic permission 'S_IRUGO' with octal permission '0444'.

This is semantically equivalent.

Not sure what and/or how this fixes anything.

> Signed-off-by: Soham Biswas <sohambiswas41@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/pwm/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/core.c b/drivers/pwm/core.c
> index 1f16f5365d3c..a8eff4b3ee36 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/core.c
> @@ -1338,7 +1338,7 @@ DEFINE_SEQ_ATTRIBUTE(pwm_debugfs);
>
> static int __init pwm_debugfs_init(void)
> {
> - debugfs_create_file("pwm", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO, NULL, NULL,
> + debugfs_create_file("pwm", S_IFREG | 0444, NULL, NULL,
> &pwm_debugfs_fops);
>
> return 0;

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