linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead

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Date:	Wed, 3 Aug 2016 01:15:20 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for symbolic permissions and suggest
 octal instead

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 04:39:24PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible.

Oh, for Cthulhu sake!  So not only we had been dribbled upon with 1200-odd
piles of pointless crap, now we'll be getting yet another set of equally
pointless garbage each time a bored wanker gets to run checkpatch.pl?

Leave that alone.  In either direction.  Dipshits on quest for commit count
have enough tools already, no need to add another one...