Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: use to octal permissions for debugfs files

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Drew,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 8:50 AM Drew Fustini <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Switch over pinctrl debugfs files to use octal permissions as they are
> preferred over symbolic permissions. Refer to commit f90774e1fd27
> ("checkpatch: look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead").
>
> Signed-off-by: Drew Fustini <drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
> @@ -1914,11 +1914,11 @@ static void pinctrl_init_debugfs(void)
>                 return;
>         }
>
> -       debugfs_create_file("pinctrl-devices", S_IFREG | S_IRUGO,
> +       debugfs_create_file("pinctrl-devices", 0400,

What about the loss of S_IFREG?
S_IRUGO = 0444, not 0400.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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