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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't require octal permissions for "0"
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 14:56:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1512946606.26342.21.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171210140401.7698-1-brgl@bgdev.pl>

On Sun, 2017-12-10 at 15:04 +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> If the permission value is 0, don't raise the NON_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS
> error. There's no possibility of an error if there are no permissions.

Hi Bartosz

This response below is the same as another email thread

-------------

Personally, I prefer 4 digit octal in most cases as it
shows the coder knows that the argument is a permissions
use and not just some generic 0.

There are not many uses of 0 for permissions outside of
module_param*.

I suppose all the variants of module_param calls, as a
0 there is specifically a "not to appear in sysfs" flag,
could or should be excluded from that octal test.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-10 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-10 14:04 [PATCH] checkpatch: don't require octal permissions for "0" Bartosz Golaszewski
2017-12-10 22:56 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-12-11  2:19 ` Joe Perches
2017-12-11  9:39   ` Bartosz Golaszewski

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