Re: [PATCH] gpu: Consistently use octal not symbolic permissions

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 24 May 2018, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is currently a mixture of octal and symbolic permissions uses
> in files in drivers/gpu/drm and one file in drivers/gpu.
>
> There are ~270 existing octal uses and ~115 S_<FOO> uses.
>
> Convert all the S_<FOO> symbolic permissions to their octal equivalents
> as using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
> readable.
>
> see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
>
> Done with automated conversion via:
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace <files...>
>
> Miscellanea:
>
> o Wrapped modified multi-line calls to a single line where appropriate
> o Realign modified multi-line calls to open parenthesis
> o drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a5xx_debugfs.c has a world-writeable
>   debug permission for "reset" - perhaps that should be modified
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_debugfs.c        |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_pm.c             | 98 +++++++++++-----------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ring.c           |  3 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c            |  9 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c            |  4 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs.c                      |  6 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs_crc.c                  |  4 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sysfs.c                        |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/firmware.c                |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c                |  8 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_perf.c                   |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_sysfs.c                  | 22 ++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pipe_crc.c              |  2 +-

Please send at least i915 changes separately. There's zero reason to
make our lives harder for this change.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center