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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com>,
	"Ed L. Cashin" <ed.cashin@acm.org>,
	"Philipp Reisner" <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>,
	"Lars Ellenberg" <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>,
	"Jiri Kosina" <jikos@kernel.org>,
	"Josef Bacik" <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, "Ilya Dryomov" <idryomov@gmail.com>,
	"Sage Weil" <sage@redhat.com>, "Alex Elder" <elder@kernel.org>,
	"Joshua Morris" <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>,
	"Philip Kelleher" <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>,
	"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com,
	nbd@other.debian.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block drivers/block: Use octal not symbolic permissions
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 15:27:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bf44255-145f-bf14-e254-860731ff9296@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e97a292c1ba38a6b5a0caa271d85dc3de1b2aa7.1527105857.git.joe@perches.com>

On 5/23/18 2:05 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> Convert the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents as
> using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
> readable.
> 
> see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
> 
> Done with automated conversion via:
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>
> 
> Miscellanea:
> 
> o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate
> o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis

Honestly, I see this as pretty needless churn.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-23 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-23 20:05 [PATCH] block drivers/block: Use octal not symbolic permissions Joe Perches
2018-05-23 21:27 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2018-05-23 21:41   ` Joe Perches
2018-05-23 22:35   ` Joe Perches
2018-05-24 12:47     ` Jens Axboe
2018-05-24 13:01       ` Joe Perches
2018-05-24 19:40         ` Jens Axboe

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