Re: [PATCH] mm: Use octal not symbolic permissions

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, Joe Perches wrote:

> mm/*.c files use symbolic and octal styles for permissions.
> 
> Using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
> readable.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
> 
> Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions.
> 
> Done using
> $ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace mm/*.c
> and some typing.
> 
> Before:	 $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l
> 44
> After:	 $ git grep -P -w "0[0-7]{3,3}" mm | wc -l
> 86
> 
> Miscellanea:
> 
> o Whitespace neatening around these conversions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

although extending some of these lines to be >80 characters also improves 
the readability imo.