Re: [PATCH] iio: humidity: htu21: Fix SYMBOLIC_PERMS chekcpatch warning

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Sun,  2 Aug 2026 09:23:26 +0800
Adi Nata <adinata.softwareengineer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Checkpatch warning:
> 
> WARNING:SYMBOLIC_PERMS: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
> +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(battery_low, S_IRUGO,
> 
> WARNING:SYMBOLIC_PERMS: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0644'.
> +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(heater_enable, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,

Would be nice to have some information on why they are not
preferred as part of the patch description.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Adi Nata <adinata.softwareengineer@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/humidity/htu21.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/humidity/htu21.c b/drivers/iio/humidity/htu21.c
> index a9dbf08b4f1a..fe7192d142ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/humidity/htu21.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/humidity/htu21.c
> @@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ static ssize_t htu21_write_heater(struct device *dev,
>  }
>  
>  static IIO_CONST_ATTR_SAMP_FREQ_AVAIL(htu21_show_samp_freq);
> -static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(battery_low, S_IRUGO,
> +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(battery_low, 0444,
>  		       htu21_show_battery_low, NULL, 0);

Now fits on one line.



> -static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(heater_enable, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
> +static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(heater_enable, 0644,
>  		       htu21_show_heater, htu21_write_heater, 0);
I don't mind having this one on a single line as well even though it is
a bit over the 80 chars soft limit at around 84 chars.

static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(heater_enable, 0644, htu21_show_heater, htu21_write_heater, 0);

>  
>  static struct attribute *htu21_attributes[] = {