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

Joe Perches
2020-11-18T09:51:18Z

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