Re: [PATCH resend] staging: comedi: comedi_fops: coding style fixes

From: Matias Mucciolo
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 12:01:17 EST



Hi Ian

yes its a coding style issue(checkpatch.pl WARN)

and reference:
https://lwn.net/Articles/696229/

(sorry about the noise.)

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Matias Mucciolo

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On Monday 12 September 2016 16:52:59 Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 12/09/16 14:18, Matias Mucciolo wrote:
> >
> > From: Matias Mucciolo <mmucciolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > - Fixed coding style in comedi_fops.c Symbolic to octal permission.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matias Mucciolo <mmucciolo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
> > index 1999eed..bf922ea 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
> > @@ -81,20 +81,20 @@ struct comedi_file {
> > (COMEDI_NUM_MINORS - COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS)
> >
> > static int comedi_num_legacy_minors;
> > -module_param(comedi_num_legacy_minors, int, S_IRUGO);
> > +module_param(comedi_num_legacy_minors, int, 0444);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(comedi_num_legacy_minors,
> > "number of comedi minor devices to reserve for non-auto-configured devices (default 0)"
> > );
> >
> > unsigned int comedi_default_buf_size_kb = CONFIG_COMEDI_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE_KB;
> > -module_param(comedi_default_buf_size_kb, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param(comedi_default_buf_size_kb, uint, 0644);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(comedi_default_buf_size_kb,
> > "default asynchronous buffer size in KiB (default "
> > __MODULE_STRING(CONFIG_COMEDI_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE_KB) ")");
> >
> > unsigned int comedi_default_buf_maxsize_kb
> > = CONFIG_COMEDI_DEFAULT_BUF_MAXSIZE_KB;
> > -module_param(comedi_default_buf_maxsize_kb, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> > +module_param(comedi_default_buf_maxsize_kb, uint, 0644);
> > MODULE_PARM_DESC(comedi_default_buf_maxsize_kb,
> > "default maximum size of asynchronous buffer in KiB (default "
> > __MODULE_STRING(CONFIG_COMEDI_DEFAULT_BUF_MAXSIZE_KB) ")");
> >
>
> In my review of the earlier patch, I said I was fine with the octal
> constants, but on reflection, I'm not sure it's worth changing them just
> for the hell of it. We'd probably get a patch from someone else later
> to change it back to symbolic constants. Is there an actual coding
> style issue, or is this just a personal preference?
>
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