Re: [PATCH 05/11] touchscreen: elants: Use octal permissions

[Harshit Jain]

I ran a treewide script and changed them all to octal and built a kernel which i am currently running on my machine, I have used DEVICE_ATTR_RO() for 0444's where possible if i dont find any regressions I will post a patch for review. I think i will be testing it at least for a week.

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 11:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> There are much more urgent issues to fix there (such as, for example,
> converting the "offending" drivers to the latest API, which would
> magically cause most of the offenders to disappear).

Perhaps posting a list of desired hwmon changes could help.

Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches does not seem to specify
what the "latest API" is nor describe what changes would be
required in older drivers.