Re: [PATCH 0857/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

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On Tue, 02 Aug 2016, Baole Ni wrote:
> I find that the developers often just specified the numeric value
> when calling a macro which is defined with a parameter for access permission.
> As we know, these numeric value for access permission have had the corresponding macro,
> and that using macro can improve the robustness and readability of the code,
> thus, I suggest replacing the numeric parameter with the macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>

NACK.

IMO, the proposed change reduces readiability for no good reason.  Most
people touching kernel code have 0444, 0644, 0755, etc. already
hardwired into their pattern recognition neural network, while the POSIX
S_* crap is actually bug food.

PS: no more ill-managed ultra-large patch bombs, *please*.

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