Hello Andy,
Thus wrote Andy Shevchenko (andy.shevche...@gmail.com):
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Martin Kaiser <mar...@kaiser.cx> wrote:
> > checkpatch is asking for a 4 digit octal number. And at least for me,
> > 0444 makes it clearer what the permissions actually are. Yes, somewhere
> > in the code, I can dig up that 0 is changed to 0444...
> Aren't 0 and 0444 different by meaning?
my undestanding is that proc_create() calls proc_create_data(), where
if ((mode & S_IALLUGO) == 0)
mode |= S_IRUGO;
sets mode to 0444 when it was 0.
Best regards,
Martin
(added the lkml back to Cc, I removed it by accident in an earlier mail)
