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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0955/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 08:49:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wrfjinvjfi9d.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160802120228.13716-1-baolex.ni@intel.com> (Baole Ni's message of "Tue, 2 Aug 2016 20:02:28 +0800")

Baole Ni <baolex.ni@intel.com> writes:
> 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>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Excuse me, but why are you CC'ing everybody and their 217 cousins on
these patches?

The fact that someone had a patch applied in a directory close to this
file within the last 3 years is not justification for spamming them with
this.

Jes

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02 12:02 [PATCH 0955/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro Baole Ni
2016-08-02 12:49 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]

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