linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: replace S

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Date:   Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:11:08 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: replace S_IRUGO with 0444

On Sat, 2018-04-07 at 19:47 +0100, Paul McQuade wrote:
> Fix checkpatch warnings about S_IRUGO being less readable than
> providing the permissions octal as '0444'.

Hey Paul.

I sent a cleanup a couple weeks ago to Andrew Morton for the
same thing.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/26/638

Andrew said he'd wait until after -rc1 is out.

btw: checkpatch can do this substitution automatically

cheers, Joe