Re: [PATCH] pwm: core: Use octal permission

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 10:35 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> > Actually I'd prefer keeping the symbolic name because this is easier to
> > grep for. So to convince me a better reason than "checkpatch says so" is
> > needed.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:58:29 -0400
> 
> The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and
> the inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the
> symbolic names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them.
> Not in the kernel, not in user space.
> 
>            Linus

I was waiting for this!

I see your "checkpatch" filter is working well Joe. :)

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