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_eyxf8wbafwwb59934fv7g21u...@mail.gmail.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> > 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. :) -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
