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

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Message-ID: <1474998228.2731.18.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:43:48 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Ramiro Oliveira <Ramiro.Oliveira@...opsys.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, arve@...roid.com,
        riandrews@...roid.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: fix permissions style

On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 22:02 +0100, Ramiro Oliveira wrote:
> Change permissions from symbolic to octal.
[]
> 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);
>  module_param_array_named(minfree, lowmem_minfree, uint, &lowmem_minfree_size,
>  			 S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);

Seems odd to fix the other two but not this one.

> -module_param_named(debug_level, lowmem_debug_level, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> +module_param_named(debug_level, lowmem_debug_level, uint, 0644);