linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/15] ASoC: omap-mcbsp: use permission-specific DEVICE

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Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2016 12:58:51 +0200
From:   Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...mer.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] ASoC: omap-mcbsp: use permission-specific
 DEVICE_ATTR variants

Hi

On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:37:04 +0200
Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr> wrote:

> Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW for read-write attributes.  This simplifies the
> source code, improves readbility, and reduces the chance of
> inconsistencies.
> 
...
> 
> - DEVICE_ATTR(x, \(0644\|S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR\), x_show, x_store);
> + DEVICE_ATTR_RW(x);

I'm not so sure does this improve readability. 644 is pretty obvious but for DEVICE_ATTR_RW() one has to dive into include/linux/device.h and include/linux/sysfs.h to see for what users it grants the write access.

-- 
Jarkko