Re: [PATCH 02/11] touchscreen: ad7877: Use octal permissions

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Jul 22 2018 - 04:40:07 EST


On Sun, 2018-07-22 at 00:39 +0530, dev-harsh1998 wrote:
> WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(name, S_IRUGO, name ## _show, NULL);
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/ad7877.c b/drivers/input/touchscreen/ad7877.c
[]
> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ name ## _show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) \
> return v; \
> return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", (unsigned) v); \
> } \
> -static DEVICE_ATTR(name, S_IRUGO, name ## _show, NULL);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(name, 0444, name ## _show, NULL);

I believe this could be

static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name)