linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: fixed permissions style issue

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Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:00:36 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Eric Salem <ericsalem@...il.com>, greg@...ah.com
Cc:     arve@...roid.com, riandrews@...roid.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: fixed permissions style issue

On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 21:47 -0500, Eric Salem wrote:
> Fixed a coding style issue. Changed symbolic permissions to octal.

If you do these, please shorten the lines where possible.

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
[]
> @@ -204,10 +204,10 @@ device_initcall(lowmem_init);
>   * not really modular, but the easiest way to keep compat with existing
>   * bootargs behaviour is to continue using module_param here.
>   */
> -module_param_named(cost, lowmem_shrinker.seeks, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param_named(cost, lowmem_shrinker.seeks, int, 0644);
>  module_param_array_named(adj, lowmem_adj, short, &lowmem_adj_size,
> -			 S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +			 0644);

module_param_array_named(adj, lowmem_adj, short, &lowmem_adj_size, 0644);

etc...