linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0904/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:05:00 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Baole Ni <baolex.ni@...el.com>, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, m.chehab@...sung.com, pawel@...iak.com,
	m.szyprowski@...sung.com, kyungmin.park@...sung.com,
	k.kozlowski@...sung.com
Cc:	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chuansheng.liu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0904/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

In general, I find sending 1285 patches to lkml unfriendly without doing a
precheck if the general idea is good.
This is especially true as you did NOT provide a cover letter that would
allow to hide this thread on lkml.


Regarding this particular patch, I do not really like this change, as I find
"0444" much easier to parse than "S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH"

Christian

On 08/02/2016 01:56 PM, Baole Ni wrote:
> I find that the developers often just specified the numeric value
> when calling a macro which is defined with a parameter for access permission.
> As we know, these numeric value for access permission have had the corresponding macro,
> and that using macro can improve the robustness and readability of the code,
> thus, I suggest replacing the numeric parameter with the macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <baolex.ni@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
> index 8688ad4..56d3671 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c
> @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static unsigned long devs_no_auto[__MAX_SSID + 1][__DEV_WORDS];
> 
>  static char *no_auto = "";
> 
> -module_param(no_auto, charp, 0444);
> +module_param(no_auto, charp, S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_auto, "list of ccw bus id ranges not to be auto-onlined");
> 
>  static int virtio_ccw_check_autoonline(struct ccw_device *cdev)
>