Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/5] device_cgroup: add DEVCG_ prefix to ACC_* and DEV_* constants

[Roman Gushchin]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 10:54:12AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 13:15 -0400, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > Rename device type and access type constants defined in
> > security/device_cgroup.c by adding the DEVCG_ prefix.
> > 
> > The reason behind this renaming is to make them global namespace
> > friendly, as they will be moved to the corresponding header file
> > by following patches.
> []
> > diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
> []
> > @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@
> >  #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
> >  #include <linux/mutex.h>
> >  
> > -#define ACC_MKNOD 1
> > -#define ACC_READ  2
> > -#define ACC_WRITE 4
> > -#define ACC_MASK (ACC_MKNOD | ACC_READ | ACC_WRITE)
> > +#define DEVCG_ACC_MKNOD 1
> > +#define DEVCG_ACC_READ  2
> > +#define DEVCG_ACC_WRITE 4
> > +#define DEVCG_ACC_MASK (DEVCG_ACC_MKNOD | DEVCG_ACC_READ | DEVCG_ACC_WRITE)
> 
> trivia:
> 
> major and minor are u32 but all the
> type and access uses seem to be "short"
> 
> Perhaps u16 (or __u16 if uapi public) instead?

It was so for a while, and it doesn't seem to be related with this patchset.
So, I'd prefer to change this in a separate patch.

Thanks!