Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] char: misc: use octal permissions for the proc entry

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 08:22:57PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> Set the permissions for /proc/misc to 0444 explicitly. At the moment,
> we're using 0 and have proc_create_data() convert this to 0444.
> This fixes a checkpatch warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>    separate patch for each checkpatch warning
> 
>  drivers/char/misc.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
> index 3447b2e..3c633d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/misc.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int __init misc_init(void)
>  	int err;
>  	struct proc_dir_entry *ret;
>  
> -	ret = proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
> +	ret = proc_create("misc", 0444, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);

What checkpatch warning does this fix?  0 is a number :)

thanks,

greg k-h