Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: replace symbolic permissions with octal permissions

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 03:58:48PM +0530, Himadri Pandya wrote:
> Resolve checkpatch warning for using symbolic permissions by replacing
> them with octal permissions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Himadri Pandya <himadri18.07@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
> index 1d0eed66a7f4..28dc422d388c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_sysfs.h
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct gasket_sysfs_attribute {
>  
>  #define GASKET_SYSFS_RO(_name, _show_function, _attr_type)                     \
>  	{                                                                      \
> -		.attr = __ATTR(_name, S_IRUGO, _show_function, NULL),          \
> +		.attr = __ATTR(_name, 0444, _show_function, NULL),          \
>  		.data.attr_type = _attr_type                                   \
>  	}

This has been rejected many times in the past as the real solution is to
use __ATTR_RO here.

thanks,

greg k-h