linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0001/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:15:03 +0100
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Baole Ni <baolex.ni@...el.com>
Cc:	linux@...linux.org.uk, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chuansheng.liu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0001/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with
 macro

On Tue,  2 Aug 2016 18:33:22 +0800
Baole Ni <baolex.ni@...el.com> 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.

If you are going to do this then please generate one patch per subsystem,
and just do a couple of subsystems initially until everyone is happy with
how it is being converted, then send out more subsystem by subsystem.

Alan