Re: [PATCH 0244/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Aug 10 2016 - 15:03:09 EST


On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 3:02:05 PM CEST Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Baole Ni <baolex.ni@xxxxxxxxx> 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>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I assume Wolfram will merge this.

I assume not, see http://lwn.net/Articles/696227/

Arnd