Re: [PATCH 0077/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2016-08-02 18:38:55, 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@xxxxxxxxx>

Sorry, the macros just make it _less_ readable, because you do chmod
666, not chmod S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH.

NAK.
							Pavel
							
> -static DEVICE_ATTR(control, 0644, control_show, control_store);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(control, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH, control_show, control_store);

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